Slight Reliability

Harinder Seera, cloud cost management expert, joins Stephen Townshend to discuss the importance of monitoring and managing cloud cost. They explore the prevalence and factors of cloud cost, common anti-patterns in cost optimization, utilizing cloud resources and infrastructure as code, the cultural practice of FinOps, and the importance of monitoring and analyzing cloud costs with various tools and strategies.

Send us a textIn this episode Stephen shares his experiences traveling overseas to the UK and Singapore AWS Summit, SREcon APAC, and the internal SquaredUp conference "SqUpCon".You can find the official Slight Reliability podcast website at: https://slightreliability.com/You can find Slight Reliability artwork on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/You can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sreInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/

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Send us a textIn this episode Stephen discusses the role of dashboards within the context of the Digital Era. What are they *not* appropriate for? What can they help with? What kinds of things are suitable to present?If you want to get involved in the SquaredUp dashboard competition head along to: https://squaredup.com/blog/dashboard-competition/ (everyone who submits an entry gets a t-shirt, you can also win Star Wars Lego, get video interviewed by me, and have the story of your dashboard presented both as a blog and on our Dashboard Gallery).You can find the official Slight Reliability podcast website at: https://slightreliability.com/You can find Slight Reliability artwork on Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/You can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sreInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/

Send us a textThis week Bruce Cullen is back to share his experiences from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2023 Europe. We chat about OpenTelemetry, green engineering, securing your CI/CD pipeline and much more.Bruce is the Director of Engineering at SquaredUp. You can find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-cullen/You can find the official Slight Reliability podcast website at: https://slightreliability.com/If you like Slight Reliability's mspaint style artwork you can find more of it on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/You can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre

Send us a textIn this episode Stephen Townshend chats to Andy Thurai (VP and Principal Analyst at Constellation Research) about Andy's latest report titled "Trends in Incident Management 2023". They chat about "mean time to innocence", status pages, they debate whether AI or ML has real value for incident management, and ponder why anyone would willingly decide to become an incident commander?You can find Andy's report here: https://www.constellationr.com/research/2023-trends-incident-managementYou can find Andy on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andythurai/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_sre

Send us a textIn this episode Stephen Townshend chats to Tim Wheeler (Director of Engineering Services at SquaredUp) about his work implementing and continually monitoring DORA metrics. They chat about customising each metric to your own unique context, avoiding the weaponisation metrics, the "tools will solve this for me" trap, and much more.The books mentioned during this episode were: Accelerate, The DevOps Handbook, The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project, Lean Enterprise, and Sooner, Safer, Happier. Tim also mentioned the work of Bryan Finster (https://twitter.com/BryanFinster).You can find Tim on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timjameswheeler/You can find out more about SquaredUp at https://squaredup.com/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_sre

Send us a textIn this episode Stephen explores the SRE concept of "toil". What is it? How can we measure it? How do we reduce it?Also in this episode: Can we make non-technology systems observable? (like we do technology ones), and the ineffectiveness of change advisory boards (CAB). Also,  Stephen's upcoming attendance at SREcon, AWS Summit, and SLOconf.Shout outs to Steve McGhee, Dom Finn, and Shea Stewart.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_sre

Send us a textIn this episode Stephen Townshend and Anurag Gupta discuss the new reliability.org community for SREs or reliability engineers to share experiences, ask questions, and find community. They discuss the value of community and sharing your thoughts, collaboration between organisations, vicious versus virtuous cycles for reliability, and much more.You can join us in the community by visiting https://www.reliability.org/You can find Anurag:On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/awgupta/You can find out more about Shoreline by visiting https://www.shoreline.io/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_sre

Send us a textIn this episode Bruce Cullen interviews Stephen Townshend about the past, present, and future of the Slight Reliability podcast. They discuss their shared backgrounds in software testing, the different career paths that testing has opened up, and much more!Bruce is the Director of Engineering at SquaredUp. You can find him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-cullen/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_sre