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Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy · 2016

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Gergely Orosz liked it
a good overview of SRE at Google. For those who worked at places with oncall, much of the first part of the book will likely be very familiar. Keep in mind that your mileage might vary: what works at Google scale, might not be the ideal fit for your use case.

on blog.pragmaticengineer.com · 16 Dec 2024

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.