

Slight Reliability
Stephen Townshend
Learning SRE, one day at a time.
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Aug 8, 2022 • 12min
Slight Reliability Episode 19 - NZ DevOps Summit 2022
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

Aug 1, 2022 • 32min
Slight Reliability Episode 18 - Interview with Chris Evans
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

Jul 18, 2022 • 27min
Slight Reliability Episode 17 - Interview with Ganesh Datta
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

Jul 11, 2022 • 41min
Slight Reliability Episode 16 - Interview with Sebastian Vietz
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

Jul 4, 2022 • 12min
Slight Reliability Episode 15 - SLObro
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

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