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Slight Reliability

Stephen Townshend
SRE
Resilience Engineering
Observability
Incident Management
Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability 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
Saas
Middleware

Learning SRE, one day at a time.

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From the day we invented computers we've been struggling to keep applications running and delivering services to the business. Is this latest wave of AI helping or hurting us?

This week I'm joined by Causely founder Shmuel Kliger to ... more

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What is operational intelligence and how is it different from observability or BI?

This week I'm joined by SquaredUp's VP of Innovation Adam Kinniburgh to answer that question and many more including...

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How does leading platform teams differ from leading product teams?

This week I'm joined by experienced technology leader Dinesh Sukhija to answer that question and many more including...

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How has my first two years as a manager in tech been? What have I learned? What do I need to work on?

This week I share my experiences over the past couple of years. I cover:

🔥 My recent close call with burnout

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Shmuel Kliger
Founder of Causely, a causal reasoning platform
Causely
Episode: AI Use-cases for SRE with Shmuel Kliger (Episode 113)
Adam Kinniburgh
VP Innovation at SquaredUp, host of the Operationally Intelligent podcast
SquaredUp
Episode: Operational Intelligence with Adam Kinniburgh (Episode 112)
Dinesh Sukhija
Leader of platform and security engineering teams with experience in cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity.
Okta
Episode: Leading Platform Teams with Dinesh Sukhija (Episode 111)
Aaron Pacheco
Co-founder of Ottermon AI with over 25 years experience in website development
Ottermon AI
Episode: The Implications of AI on Observability with Aaron "Checo" Pacheco (Episode 109)
Kolton Andrus
CEO and Founder of Gremlin, the first reliability and Chaos Engineering platform.
Gremlin
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)

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Stephen Townsend
Host focused on Site Reliability Engineering, leading insightful discussions with industry experts.

Reviews

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.

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    zerolagtime
    United States5 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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Engaging conversations that highlight the interplay of technology and mental health, regarded as insightful for software delivery teams.
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AI Use-cases for SRE with Shmuel Kliger (Episode 113)
Q: What is your opinion on the current push for AI applications in SRE?
AI applications, particularly LLMs, can be beneficial, but many vendors overstate their effectiveness, particularly in understanding causal relationships.
AI Use-cases for SRE with Shmuel Kliger (Episode 113)
Q: What is causal reasoning?
Causal reasoning involves understanding the causal relationships between different entities, such as how one failure can affect multiple dependent systems.
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.

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2. Adam Kinniburgh
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