

Slight Reliability
Stephen Townshend
Learning SRE, one day at a time.
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Jun 27, 2022 • 11min
Slight Reliability Episode 14 - SLOpoke
Send us a textIn this episode I share my updated thinking on SLOs and an "ah-ha!" moment I had.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

Jun 13, 2022 • 17min
Slight Reliability Episode 13 - I Guess You'll Have to Latency
Send us a textWhat is latency and how does it relate to customer experience? Where do you measure it? Why do the metrics we choose to capture matter?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

Jun 6, 2022 • 10min
Slight Reliability Episode 12 - SLO vs NFR Grudge Match!
Send us a textWhen it comes to reliability SLO's and NFR's are both *somewhat* related in that they allow us to describe the level of service we want to provide our customers. So how do they match up head to head?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

May 30, 2022 • 13min
Slight Reliability Episode 11 - The Era of Errors
Send us a textWhat is an error? Where do you measure errors? How do they relate to SLO's and error budgets? 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

May 23, 2022 • 17min
Slight Reliability Episode 10 - Single Pain of Glass
Send us a textIn this episode we discuss the observability concept of a 'single pane of glass' view, and I share my experience implementing one.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

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

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

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

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

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