Service Level Objectives and Nobl9, with Brian Singer and Kit Merker

Brian Singer co-founded Orbitera, which was acquired by Google in 2016. During that process he met Kit Merker, who was a PM on GKE and the GCP Marketplace, and the two are now working togther on relability engineering startup Nobl9. We talk about migrating Orbitera to GKE and Google’s SRE platform, and how many 9s are too many.

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Links from the interview

• Orbitera in 2016 - acquired by Google
• Why Orbitera was migrated to GKE
• Site Reliability Engineering
  • Service level objectives
  • Error budgets and risk
  • Being too reliable
  • SLOs, SLAs, SLIs
• SLOs explained in 90 seconds video by Kit Merker
• Nobl9
  • SLO Platform
• SLOconf
  • Fly to SLO
  • Fly to Oslo
• Beyond Seattle SRE meetup
• Slash at Wembley Arena
• Brian Singer on Twitter
• Kit Merker on Twitter