Slight Reliability

Stephen Townshend
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Oct 24, 2022 • 18min

Slight Reliability Episode 29 - Team Topologies

Send us a textIn this episode I give a summary of the book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manual Pais (https://teamtopologies.com/book) and how this relates to implementing SRE practices.(POINT OF CORRECTION: One of the authors is "Matthew" Skelton, not "Michael")You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/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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Oct 17, 2022 • 13min

Slight Reliability Episode 28 - State of DevOps 2022

Send us a textIn this episode I give my take on the Accelerate State of DevOps 2022 from the SRE perspective.You can find the Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2022 here: https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops/You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/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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Oct 10, 2022 • 14min

Slight Reliability Episode 27 - Anxiety Engineering

Send us a textIn this episode I share my experience relapsing into anxiety and insomnia, ruminate on an SRE's sphere of influence, and tease an upcoming change of role.You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/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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Sep 26, 2022 • 19min

Slight Reliability Episode 26 - The Toyota Way

Send us a textIn this episode I reflect on the book "The Toyota Way" by Jeffrey Liker, and explore four principles which resonate with my work. The book in question is The Toyota Way: https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Way-Second-Management-Manufacturer/dp/1260468518 You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/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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Sep 19, 2022 • 9min

Slight Reliability Episode 25 - Continuous Delivery

Send us a textIn this episode I discuss the concept behind continuous delivery and share the ideas we've been exploring at IAG.The book I mentioned is The Toyota Way: https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Way-Second-Management-Manufacturer/dp/1260468518 You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/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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Sep 12, 2022 • 29min

Slight Reliability Episode 24 - Interview with Abby Bangser

Send us a textIn this episode I have a chat with Bangser about the transition from testing to SRE, the barriers thrown in front of testers (which SREs don't tend to face), being humble to be let in the door, and *much* more. You can find Abby on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser/The book she mentioned was Infrastructure as Code by Kief Morris https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/books/infrastructure-as-code-2nd-editionYou can find Chastity Majors (cofounder of Honeycomb) on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mipsytipsyYou can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/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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Sep 5, 2022 • 19min

Slight Reliability Episode 23 - Grafana Central

Send us a textIn this episode I share the story of Grafana Central, an observability platform that we've been standing up at IAG.You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/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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Aug 29, 2022 • 19min

Slight Reliability Episode 22 - It's SLO Going

Send us a textIn this episode I share a talk I did earlier in the year as part of the Grafana User Group APAC. I share our experiences attempting to implement SLOs at IAG, and our reliability benchmarking work which is a great way to get started if SRE is brand new to your organisation.You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/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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Aug 22, 2022 • 12min

Slight Reliability Episode 21 - Rubik's Kube

Send us a textIn this episode I share experiences and ideas about Kubernetes, and what I learned from speaking to Ruben Hakopiean from Kubevious. I'd like to give a huge shout out to Ruben. Many of the topics and ideas discussed come straight from what was discussed in the interview we recorded (but were unable to publish due to audio issues).You can find Ruben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubenhak/And find out more about Kubevious here: https://kubevious.io/You can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/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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Aug 15, 2022 • 32min

Slight Reliability Episode 20 - Interview with Joey Hendricks

Send us a textIn this episode I have a chat with Joey Hendricks about running performance tests in production.You can find Joey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joey-hendricks/And GitHub: https://github.com/JoeyHendricksYou can find me on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/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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