YouTube says that an error caused comments critical of China to auto-delete

Re:YouTube says that an error caused comments critical of Ch... by joshuamorton on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:34PM (#23318508)

"abuse system deletes some comments" isn't a failure mode sre concerns itself with. Buggy software can, and will get released despite whatever operational principles you have.

Sre isn't about buglessness, but reliability.

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Re:YouTube says that an error caused comments critical of Ch... by stonogo on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:20PM (#23318751)

Isn't this utterly at odds with the concept of code ownership, and how SRE doesn't take systems into production without owning them first?

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Re:YouTube says that an error caused comments critical of Ch... by joshuamorton on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:45PM (#23318875)

SRE doesn't own the code. They own the system reliability. Devs are still responsible for writing the functional code.

Certain aspects of the release process may fall under SRE's purview, but what the tool does is ultimately the responsibility of developers (and product). The SRE book covers testing in one chapter (17), and most of that chapter is about production testing.

The question you need to ask is "is the system still within in SLOs?" If so, SRE is doing their job. If you think that resulted in a bad experience, change the SLO. But I'd ask what the heck kind of SLO would have prevented this issue?

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Re:YouTube says that an error caused comments critical of Ch... by londons_explore on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @01:46AM (#23319744)

"99.9 % of spammers get to see their spam posted within 300ms"

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