Slight Reliability

Stephen Townshend
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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