Let's play a real life Dungeon and Dragons
summary
Roleplay of real incidents replaces lecturing: the method replays a past outage so the team replay incidents and practices queries that actually find problems. The session shows concrete tools — SSH, curl, checking /proc, Git, log files and the Google Cloud GCP load balancer console — and walks through fixing an expired cert and isolating a node returning 429 on one node. Claims: you need about eight people for healthy on‑call rotations, aim for ≤2 incidents/day, and the exercise is non‑destructive and effective.
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- 0:00Start
- 0:28About me
- 3:05Incidents per day
- 4:22What is D&D?
- 6:11What would you gain after this talk
- 6:54How to play
- 8:25Assumptions
- 9:33Welcome to World of Dragons
- 10:47Mystery of Certificates...
- 18:31Requests in dungeon
- 44:44Recap
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