Slight Reliability

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

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

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

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

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

Send us a textIn this episode I share my takeaways from the NZ DevOps Summit held in Auckland. This was the first in-person event I had attended in three years.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

Send us a textIn this episode I have a chat with Chris Evans from incident.io about using incidents to lift the lid on an organisation, how aiming for zero incidents can stall an organisation, how tracking MTTR is unhelpful, and much more.You can find Chris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evnsio/Here are the resources Chris mentioned...The practical guide to incident management:http://incident.io/guideThe Field Guide to Understanding Human Error (by Sidney Dekker) https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-field-guide/9781317031833/Moving Past Shallow Incident Data by John Allspaw https://www.adaptivecapacitylabs.com/blog/2018/03/23/moving-past-shallow-incident-data/And the SREcon talk he mentioned by Courtney Nash: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon22americas/presentation/nashYou 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

Send us a textIn this episode I have a chat with Ganesh Datta, CTO and co-founder of Cortex.io. In this episode we discuss the human challenges of microservices, gamifying reliability, connecting business outcomes with SRE work, and much more.You can find Ganesh on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gsdatta/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

Send us a textIn this episode I have a chat with Sebastian Vietz, an SRE lead based in Canada who has been leading the implementation of SRE across different teams and organisations for eight years. In this episode we discuss SLO adoption, SRE going mainstream, virtual teams, and many other topics.You can find Sebastian on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianvietz/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

Send us a textIn this episode I discuss potential pre-requisites that are ideally in place before attempting to adopt SLOs.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