Slight Reliability

Dec 09 2024 92 ep. 23 mins 37

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Slight Reliability Episode 90 - Non-Prod Reliability Engineering + 2024 Wrap

Dec 09 2024 18 mins

This week I check in and give an update on work, life, and my attempts at bringing to life SRE practices in the world of non-production environment management.You can find the official Slight Reliability podcast website at: https://slightreliability.com/You can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sreYouTube: h

Slight Reliability Episode 89 - Blameless Post-mortems with Karanveer Anand

Sep 03 2024 26 mins

This week I'm joined by Karanveer Anand, SRE Technical Program Manager at Google to discuss blameless post-mortems. We cover:🦅 The recent Crowdstrike outage and their public post-mortem🚑 When do we do a blameless post-mortem?😕 How do we do a blameless post-mortem?✅ How do we make sure action items are followed through?📰 The power of learning from post-mortems created

Slight Reliability Episode 88 - OpenTelemetry Revisited with Zach Michel

Aug 27 2024 26 mins

This week Zach Michel from https://middleware.io/ and I discuss the state of OpenTelemetry and what it means to adopt it. We cover:🌩️ Achieving observability in a SaaS world🥫 Context propagation - the magic sauce of OTEL🚪 The telemetry gateway concept and leveraging the OTEL collector🪵 The state of OpenTelemetry logging🫂 Making use of the OpenTelemetry community...

Slight Reliability Episode 87 - Measuring the value of SRE with Artem Yakimenko

Jul 24 2024 35 mins

In Episode 80 Niall Murphy talked about the need for SREs to be better at articulating the value of our work. In this episode I'm joined by ex-Googler and Engineering Director (SRE) at Culture Amp Artem Yakimenko about how we might achieve this.We discuss both quantifiable and qualitative approaches including leveraging the untapped data in support tickets, customer sentiment and r

Slight Reliability Episode 86 - Evolving SLOs with Dom Finn

Jun 07 2024 25 mins

In the world of SRE we constantly talk about defining SLOs, but what about evolving them over time? This week I chat with SRE Tech Lead Dom Finn about just that. We cover the relationship between reliability and user analytics, latency classes as a way to speak SLOs with business stakeholders, the role of NFRs and how the thresholds differ from SLOs, and much more.Books mentioned i

Slight Reliability Episode 85 - Feeling SaaSsy

May 02 2024 11 mins

This week I talk about the impact of SaaS-first technology strategies on the work of an SRE. I pose questions about observability, ownership, on-call, and how much control we have over reliability.You can find the Bleeding Tech blog on Medium: https://medium.com/@stownshendYou can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Twitter: https://twitter.com/th

Slight Reliability Episode 84 - Clinical Troubleshooting with Dan Slimmon

Mar 29 2024 27 mins

This week I chat with Dan Slimmon about applying the approach doctors use to treat patient symptoms during incident response.You can find Dan's blog at https://blog.danslimmon.com/ or connect with him on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danslimmon/You can find the official Slight Reliability podcast website at: https://slightreliability.com/You can find Stephen at:LinkedI

Slight Reliability Episode 83 - An Unfulfilled Promise with Itiel Shwartz

Mar 04 2024 30 mins

This week I hear about all things Kubernetes from Komodor CTO and co-founder Itiel Shwartz. We chat about the promise that was made when Kubernetes first entered the industry, the challenge of getting developers engaged and capable of working in Kubernetes, my hate/hate relationship with Helm but its important contribution to the Kubernetes project, Kubernetes observability, and so

Slight Reliability Episode 82 - CI/CD with Amin Astaneh

Feb 13 2024 25 mins

This week I sit down and have a discussion with Amin Astaneh (from Certo Modo) about CI/CD. We cover the power of the standard change as a way to navigate ITIL while still implementing DevOps practices, what to monitor to make your CI/CD observable, single piece flow, testing in production, and so much more.You can find Amin on his company website https://certomodo.io, LinkedIn: ht

Slight Reliability Episode 81 - Incident Management in Non-Prod Environments

Feb 06 2024 10 mins

"Environment issues are just incidents that happened to occur in a non-production environment"... so why do we treat them so differently?In this first episode of the 2024 season I reflect on how we handle incidents in non-prod environments.(Note: Had a few issues with noise suppression in OBS Studio cutting off the start of some words, will sort it for the next episode)You can find