If the future of software engineering is SRE, because GenAI is taking care of coding, a similar trend is coming for SRE-type work.
It's called AI SRE, and for now, it's mostly targeted at helping on-call engineers investigate and solve incidents. But of course, these agents can also be used proactively to improve reliability.
A tool that detects potential signs of overwork in incident responders, which could lead to burnout. To compute a per-responder risk score, it integrates with Rootly, PagerDuty, GitHub, and Slack.
In my experience as a former SRE currently working for an incident management SaaS (Rootly).
Two main reasons:
1) The status page update is not automated. It takes time for the incident management process to go through all the steps and updating the status page is generally not the first one. It's often an overlooked one.
2) The company would rather not communicate that they are/were down, or they are not yet sure of the impact, and therefore don't yet have the correct information to share.
Of course, all modern incident platforms will offer tools to update your page super easily/in real-time. But tooling is generally not the main issue; it's process/information.
A burnout detector for SREs. The goal is to help teams identify incident responders who may be overworked/getting burned out.
We are looking at:
-Objective data: signals from incident management tools (Rootly/PagerDuty), GitHub, and Slack
-Self-reported data: asking the engineers how they feel via short survey
From this, we generate a CBI score (Copenhagen Burnout Inventory). We're still in beta, but we've received positive feedback from our beta testers, especially from manager of large and distributed orgs.
Same here. They have a known bugs where entries will vanish from your contacts. Data loss is a big deal (or so I thought).
Support asked me to let them know when a contact vanishing did so they could gather logs from me phone.
Once I was finally able to see it happen, I reached out. Reported that it had just happened overnight. The customer support said it was too long of a time frame for engineers to investigate because "it generates a lot of logs and that's too much to go through". I could not believe their answer.
I just moved my contacts to Gmail and that was the end of it.
I live in Florida. Both my neighbor and I lost our hive q few weeks apart. It happened very quickly and what the article mentioned is most likely what they got. We knew about the sharp die-off across the U.S. so decided to hold off bee keeping until it is figured out.
I have experienced data loss with Apple and the support team telling me the knew about it but could not pinpoint the issue.
I had entries disappearing from my Contacts (iCloud). The customer support asked for me to get back when I notice the issue so they could get logs to debug. My best friend contact entry disappeared overnight. I called the representative the day of and told him that the contact disappeared between yesterday night and today morning. His answer was that I needed to pinpoint more accurately when the contact disappeared, because iPhone generates a lot of logs and and engineers don’t have time to go through them. Ah!
Needless to say I stopped storing my contacts with iCloud and my trust eroded. “Funny enough” I also had issues with my Health data, years of it disappeared. Support could not do anything. The data magically came back a month later or so.
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I’ve got a similar issue with a loss of Contacts. I has been happening for a while but I first thought the issue was me.
However on a morning I realized the contact of a friend I was texting with the night before was gone. I realized the problem was iCloud.
I reach out to Apple support, and after exhausting all the dummy options, the customer support representative admitted that this was a known issue, but they could not find the root cause. And there was no solution to it.
The asked me to monitor my contacts so that I could find when this deletion happen but I would need to give a few minutes range. Because “an iPhone generates a lot of logs and engineers cannot go through them unless we can pinpoint where it exactly happened”.
I thought that pinpointed the bug within a 8 hours range was already good, but the customer’s representative insisted on being accurate within minutes (saying the engineers said that).
Anyway, as all the hard case that I give to Apple Support, the representative said he would follow-up and call me back but never did. So nothing happened.
I move my contacts to Google and just forgot about it.
Living in South Florida and I found these 2 methods to be efficient:
-The propane burning traps about ten mosquitoes a day. It's an expensive setup. The SkeeterVac is $600, and a $20 propane tank will last a bit less than a month.
-"Mosquito Dunks" or more specifically, BTI (Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis) has to be placed into standing water. Mosquitoes come to lay eggs that will die because of the BTI. I don't know how many it kills, but I've seen a demi-dozen of larvae in there at a time. Here I recommend going with the granules format as the chemical is powerful, and you don't need much of it for example if placed in a bucket. Better than having to deal with breaking down a big piece into smaller ones.
We provide an on-call, incident management, and AI SRE platform. We are used by companies like NVIDIA, LinkedIn, and Dropbox.
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