SREview Issue #5 September 2020
Tags: sre, devops
Published: 2020-09-15 16:47:42

Originally published on [Failure is Inevitable](https://www.blameless.com/blog).

Here’s the September issue of SREview! This monthly zine features epic Tweets, content, and events happening in the SRE and resilience engineering community.

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#Tweets that have us twittering#
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{% twitter 1301227637247848448 %}
#SREading#
[How to Build Your SRE Team](https://www.blameless.com/blog/how-to-build-an-sre-team): Learn about some of the many roles an SRE can play, and how to find people with those skill sets.

[There’s more to testing than simply testing](https://sdtimes.com/test/theres-more-to-testing-than-simply-testing/): Lisa Morgan writes for the SD Times about how we should shift testing left in the software development lifecycle.

[Industry Experts Explain how to Thrive in a Post-COVID World](https://www.blameless.com/blog/how-to-thrive-in-a-post-covid-world): Hear from the CEOs of Blameless and Grafana, and Packet’s Sr. Director of Operations on lessons learned.

[QUESTIONABLE ADVICE: WAR ROOMS? REALLY?!?](https://charity.wtf/2020/09/02/questionable-advice-war-rooms-really/): Charity Majors gives her take on war rooms and how observability factors in.

[How to Improve the Reliability of a System](https://www.blameless.com/blog/how-to-improve-the-reliability-of-a-system): Check out helpful steps to take when improving a system’s reliability.
#Give it a whirl#
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Try out our [free sandbox](https://www.blameless.com/try-now) today.
#Upcoming events#
[(Virtual) San Francisco Reliability Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Reliability-Engineering/events/267255053/) September 16 at 7 PM PST: Twitter’s Sr. Staff SRE Brian Rutkin will share directed ways of thinking about hiring great SREs, conducting interviews, and more.

[Are We All on the Same Page? Let's Fix That](https://99percentdevops.com/?utm_source=blameless&utm_medium=partner#upcoming) September 17 at 6 AM PST: As part of Lightstep’s 99% DevOps series, Luis Mineiro, Head of SRE at Zalando will be giving a talk on Adaptive Paging and how to improve on-call.

[Cloudbees DevOps World 2020](https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world) September 22-24: this virtual conference brings together thought leaders, practitioners, and community contributors to talk about the future of software delivery. We’ll be giving out a drone, so be sure to stop by our booth for a chance to win!

[Blameless Bi-Weekly Demo](https://www.blameless.com/resources/bi-weekly-live-demo-of-blameless) September 23 at 8 AM PST: Check out a live demo of Blameless as we walk you through operations best practices, and get your questions answered.
#Want to contribute?#
If you’re looking to share your insights with the SRE and resilience engineering community, we’d love to partner with you on content. Fill out our [form here](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe7IKlTn6BKwzG1_c-YJeo5LfsvyqrkZn2tvM28zxkeEejlLw/viewform?usp=sf_link) and we’ll reach out!