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* [The elevator programming game](http://play.elevatorsaga.com/)
* [Challenging projects every programmer should try](http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/challengingprojects.html): text editor, space invaders, compiler (Tiny Basic), mini OS, spreadsheet, video game console emulator.
### Incident response (oncall, alerting, outages, firefighting)
### Incident response (oncall, alerting, outages, firefighting, postmortem)
* [Incident Response at Heroku](https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/5/9/incident-response-at-heroku)
* [Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture](https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/)
* [My Philosophy On Alerting](https://linuxczar.net/sysadmin/philosophy-on-alerting/)
* Pages should be urgent, important, actionable, and real.
* Err on the side of removing noisy alerts – over-monitoring is a harder problem to solve than under-monitoring.
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* Include cause-based information in symptom-based pages or on dashboards, but avoid alerting directly on causes.
* The further up your serving stack you go, the more distinct problems you catch in a single rule. But don’t go so far you can’t sufficiently distinguish what’s going on.
* If you want a quiet oncall rotation, it’s imperative to have a system for dealing with things that need timely response, but are not imminently critical.
* A great example of a [postmortem from Gitlab (01/31/2017)](https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/) for an outage during which an engineer's action caused the irremediable loss of 6 hours of data.
* The Google SRE book's [chapter about oncall](https://landing.google.com/sre/workbook/chapters/on-call/)
* [Writing Runbook Documentation When You’re An SRE](https://www.transposit.com/blog/2020.01.30-writing-runbook-documentation-when-youre-an-sre/)
* Playbooks “reduce stress, the mean time to repair (MTTR), and the risk of human error.”
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* Make your content easy to glance over.
* If a script is longer than a single line, treat it like code, and check it into a repository to be source control and potentially tested.
#### Postmortem
* A great example of a [postmortem from Gitlab (01/31/2017)](https://about.gitlab.com/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-database-incident/) for an outage during which an engineer's action caused the irremediable loss of 6 hours of data.
* [Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture](https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/)
* [A list of postmortems on Github](https://github.com/danluu/post-mortems)
* Google's SRE book, [Postmortem chapter](https://landing.google.com/sre/workbook/chapters/postmortem-culture/) is excellent and includes many examples.
Dan Milstein, “Let’s plan for a future where we’re all as stupid as we are today.”
### Internet
* [How Does the Internet Work?](https://web.stanford.edu/class/msande91si/www-spr04/readings/week1/InternetWhitepaper.htm)