Reliability Enablers

May 30 2024 3
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Software reliability is a tough topic for engineers in many organizations. The Reliability Enablers (Ash Patel and Sebastian Vietz) know this from experience. Join us as we demystify reliability jargon like SRE, DevOps, and more. We interview experts and share practical insights. Our mission is to help you boost your success in reliability-enabling areas like observability, incident response, release engineering, and more.

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#44 - Making SLOs Matter to Stakeholders

May 30 2024 20 mins  
Bonus episode on SLOs because Sebastian and I felt that we did not cover the why of SLOs and make them relevant to stakeholders. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit read.srepath.com

#43 - SLOs: a Deeper Dive into its Mechanics

May 28 2024 31 mins  
This episode continues our coverage of Chapter 4 of the Site Reliability Engineering book (2016). In this second part, we take a deeper dive into the mechanics of SLOs.Here are 5 takeaways from the show:* Start Small with SLOs: Begin with a limited number of SLOs and iteratively refine them based on experience and feedback. Avoid overwhelming teams with too many objectives at once.

#42 - Hitting Software SLA Targets through SLOs and SLIs

May 21 2024 29 mins  
In this first part of a 2-part coverage, Sebastian Vietz and I work out how to meet SLAs through SLOs and SLIs. This episode covers Chapter 4 of the Site Reliability Engineering book (2016). Here are 7 takeaways from the show:* Involve Technical Stakeholders Early: Ensure that technical stakeholders, such as SREs, are involved in discussions about SLAs and SLOs from the beginning.

#41 Curbing High Observability Costs

May 14 2024 24 mins  
No one wants to get Coinbase’s $65 million observability bill in the future. Sure, observability comes with a necessary cost. But that cost cannot exceed the concrete and perceived value on balance sheets and the minds of leaders. Sofia Fosdick shares practical insights on curbing high observability costs. She’s a senior account executive at Honeycomb.io and has held similar ti

#40 How to Enable Observability for Success

May 07 2024 27 mins  
Observability is more than a set of technologies. It’s a practice. Timothy Mahoney is no stranger to this practice, enabling many developer teams to take on better practices in observability. He’s a senior systems engineer at IKEA and is part of its observability enabling team. Tim highlighted the importance of developing and driving frameworks for observability. He also covere

#39 How Chaos Engineering Helps Reduce Incident Risk

Apr 30 2024 24 mins  
Chaos Engineering is no longer a nice to have, as Ananth Movva explains in this episode of the SREpath podcast. His experiences with it drove a reduced number and severity of serious incidents and outages.He’s been at the helm of reliability-focused decision-making at one of Canada’s largest banks, BMO, since 2020. Having completed 12 years at the bank, Ananth has seen the evol

#38 The Real Cost of Software Reliability & Downtime

Apr 23 2024 23 mins  
This episode covers Chapter 3 of the Site Reliability Engineering book (2016). In this second part, we talk about the costs behind reliability and choosing not to do it well or at all.Here are key takeaways from our conversation:* Prioritize Risk Mitigation: Recognize SRE as a discipline focused on mitigating risks within your organization, including technology, reputation, and fin

#37 An SRE Approach to Managing Technology Risk

Apr 16 2024 30 mins  
This episode covers Chapter 3 of the Site Reliability Engineering book (2016). In this first part, we talk about embracing risk from the SRE perspective. We'll cover how it's very different to the typical IT risk management mindset. Here are key takeaways from our conversation: Embrace Risk with Velocity: Rather than being hindered by traditional governance models and chan

#36 Avoiding Critical Platform Engineering Mistakes

Apr 09 2024 26 mins  
Platform engineering is replacing SRE and DevOps. Jokes aside, knowing the path to better platforms is key. Abby Bangser is the right person to tell us how to achieve greater maturity in this aspect of software operations. She's previously held SRE roles and currently works as Principal Engineer at Syntasso, the company behind the popular Kratix platform framework. Abby highlig

#35 Boosting Your Observability Data's Usability

Apr 02 2024 35 mins  
The observability (o11y) data revolution is well underway, but are we getting the most from the data that is being collected?Richard Benwell thinks we have room for improvement, especially at the usage stage where we query and visualize the o11y data.He is the founder and CEO of SquaredUp, a dashboard software company based out of Maidenhead, UK with over 10 years of experience in