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Slight Reliability

Stephen Townshend
SRE
Observability
Incident Management
Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering
Resilience Engineering
Opentelemetry
Non-Production Reliability Engineering
User Experience
Leadership
Service Level Objectives
Cloud Observability
Blameless Postmortems
Sre Practices
Observability Maturity
Job Market
Synthetic Monitoring
Root Cause Analysis
Telemetry
Middleware

Learning SRE, one day at a time.

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Recent Guests

Kolton Andrus
CEO and Founder of Gremlin, the first reliability and Chaos Engineering platform.
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Episode: Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus (Episode 108)
Luke McManus
Agile coach with over 20 years of experience in tech and delivery roles, specializing in Agile and DevOps methodologies, design thinking, and human-centered design.
Episode: Team Topologies with Luke McManus (Episode 107)
Wendy Ha
Software engineer with a strong interest in DevOps, platform engineering, and SRE. Passionate Open Source contributor and advocate for women in tech and mental health.
Kubernetes release team
Episode: Contributing to Open Source with Wendy Ha (Episode 106)
Nora Jones
Leader in software reliability and resilience engineering, founder of jeli.io
PagerDuty
Episode: Influencing Leadership with Nora Jones (Episode 105)
Colette Alexander
President of the Resilience and Software Foundation, co-host of the This Is Fine podcast, and accomplished rock cellist.
Resilience and Software Foundation
Episode: Burnout with Colette Alexander (Episode 103)
Hanson Ho
Mobile Observability and Reliability Obsessive at Embrace
Embrace
Episode: Mobile Observability with Hanson Ho (Episode 102)
John Allspaw
Co-founder of Adaptive Capacity Labs and former CTO at Etsy.
Adaptive Capacity Labs
Episode: Learning with John Allspaw (Episode 100)
Trent Hornibrook
AWS Cloud Architect and Engineering Leader
Catch, AWS Community Builder
Episode: Focusing on What Matters with Trent Hornibrook (Episode 99)
Andrew Hatch
SRE manager with over 25 years of experience in tech, currently working at Cisco ThousandEyes.
Cisco ThousandEyes
Episode: The Root Cause Fallacy with Andrew Hatch (Episode 98)

Host

Stephen Townsend
Host of the show, sharing his insights on SRE and technology leadership with a focus on resilience, reliability, and the support of humane work practices.

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4.8 out of 5 stars from 17 ratings
  • Software engineer essentials

    Well guided conversations that illustrate how software delivery teams can improve their ability to adapt to unknown hazards.

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    4
    zerolagtime
    United States4 months ago
  • Excellent

    Started with the first episode. Loved the precise explanation. Really helpful!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    ItsPradeep
    India5 years ago

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Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus (Episode 108)
Q: What role does AI play in building reliable systems?
AI is not yet ready to handle judgment calls in production; it lacks the accountability and understanding that human engineers have.
Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus (Episode 108)
Q: What advice do you have for changing the mindset of organizations that are terrified of Chaos Engineering?
I compare it to crash testing cars; understanding and preparing for failures is better than being surprised by them.
Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus (Episode 108)
Q: Could you give an overview of Chaos Engineering for those who might not be clear about what it is?
Chaos Engineering involves testing failures in real systems to understand behavior and side effects, moving beyond the chaos of random failures to planned experiments that validate resilience.
Team Topologies with Luke McManus (Episode 107)
Q: Do you have any tips for an organization or team or an individual of how to reduce cognitive load and still be effective?
Aligning teams to some sort of purpose and value and staying aligned to that is important, along with recognizing the impact of funding and scale on agility.
Team Topologies with Luke McManus (Episode 107)
Q: What is Team Topologies?
Team Topologies is a framework that guides you on how to structure your teams and your team of teams for the fast flow of value.

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