Slight Reliability

Stephen Townshend
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May 16, 2022 • 10min

Slight Reliability Episode 9 - Thoughts from SLOconf 2022

Send us a textIn this episode I share my thoughts from SLOconf, a conference all about Service Level Objectives (SLO's).You can find all the talks (actually 60 of them!) from SLOconf here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgZm2Bp2-AQ&list=PLLNq9CBV7AFwkXvYmjPPIQlRDVwTmacEKYou can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento...Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sreMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!).Intro:https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-timesLicense code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDICOutro:https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyagerLicense code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM
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May 4, 2022 • 13min

Slight Reliability Episode 8 - o11yfest Pre-reactions Pt2

Send us a textIn this episode I provide three more (p)re-reactions to upcoming sessions at o11yfest 2022 (a conference all about observability). The talks I cover are:"Obserability driven development" by Jessica Kerr"Return on investment driven observability" by Michael Hausenblas"How the OpenTelemetry Collector puts you in the driver seat" by Alex BotenI am also speaking at o11yfest. You can watch my talk on Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th: https://o11yfest.org/You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento...Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sreMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!).Intro:https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-timesLicense code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDICOutro:https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyagerLicense code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM
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May 2, 2022 • 18min

Slight Reliability Episode 7 - o11yfest Pre-reactions

Send us a textIn this episode I provide a (p)re-reaction to three of the talks that will be included in the upcoming 2022 o11yfest conference (a conference all about observability). The talks I cover are:"Where the heck are my spans?" by Reese Lee"Confidence in chaos" by Narmatha Bala"Is MTTR still relevant in a modern, cloud native world?" by Martin MaoI am also speaking at o11yfest. You can watch my talk on Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th: https://o11yfest.org/You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento...Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sreMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!).Intro:https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-timesLicense code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDICOutro:https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyagerLicense code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM
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Apr 11, 2022 • 11min

Slight Reliability Episode 6 - Afailability

Send us a textHow do you measure the availability of your services? What metric do you pick? What layer of the solution do you track it from?My colleague Gwen and I are sharing our SLO definition workshop experience at SLOconf from May 9th to 12th: https://www.sloconf.com/You can also watch my talk on Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th: https://o11yfest.org/You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento...Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sreMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!).Intro:https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-timesLicense code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDICOutro:https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyagerLicense code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM
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Apr 4, 2022 • 14min

Slight Reliability Episode 5 - SLO Motion

Send us a textIn the episode I share our team's experience defining SLO's, and how we experimented and pivoted to achieve better outcomes.As discussed in the episode, if you would like to hear (and see) more about our SLO workshop, my colleague Gwen and I are speaking at SLOconf from May 9th to 12th: https://www.sloconf.com/You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento...Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sreMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro:https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-timesLicense code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDICOutro:https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyagerLicense code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM
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Mar 28, 2022 • 11min

Slight Reliability Episode 4 - Bad Observability Part 3

Send us a textWhat are even more antipatterns to avoid in monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging?Shout out to James Pulley for his contribution to this episode. James is one of the world's leading experts on performance engineering and can be found on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslpulley3/I will be presenting about Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th 2022: https://o11yfest.org/You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento...Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sreMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro:https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-timesLicense code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDICOutro:https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyagerLicense code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM
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Mar 21, 2022 • 16min

Slight Reliability Episode 3 - Bad Observability Part 2

Send us a textWhat are some more antipatterns to avoid in monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging?Shout out to Raguraman Balasubramanian (https://www.linkedin.com/in/raguraman-balasubramanian-070150108/) for his contribution to this episode.You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento...Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sreMusic from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro:https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-timesLicense code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDICOutro:https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyagerLicense code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM
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Mar 14, 2022 • 17min

Slight Reliability Episode 2 - Bad Observability Part 1

Send us a textWhat are some antipatterns to avoid in monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging?Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro:https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-timesLicense code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDICOutro:https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyagerLicense code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM
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Mar 7, 2022 • 10min

Slight Reliability Episode 1 - What the heck is SRE anyway?

Send us a textWhat is SRE *really* about? How did it start? What do I *want* it to be? What is it being implemented as in the industry?Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro:https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-timesLicense code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDICOutro:https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyagerLicense code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM

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