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 CEO and founder Shmuel Kliger ...

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...❓ What is operational intelli...

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...❓ What is a platform team?⚽ Coaching engi...

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🫶 How I attempted ...

How could AI help human beings negotiate the mountains of telemetry we collect to get simple and fast insight?This week I'm joined by Ottermon AI CEO and founder Checo Pacheco about the lifecycle of observability coverage and tooling wit...

What is chaos engineering and how is it being used in 2025?This week I'm joined by Gremlin CEO and founder Kolton Andrus to discuss...🌪️ What is chaos engineering and what is its origins?🪴 How has it evolved over the year?...

What are Team Topologies? How can they be used to deliver value simpler and more effectively (and in a more humane way)?This week I'm joined by Luke McManus to discuss...⛰️ What are the four team topologies?🏆 Can we have too m...

How do you begin contributing to an open source project? What's it like? What do you get out of it?This week I'm joined by Wendy Ha who shares her unique story of joining the Kubernetes project and becoming a contributor. We explore...

As an #SRE how do you influence senior leadership to get support and priority for the things you care about?To answer this question I'm joined by Nora Jones, founder of Jeli and now Head of Pricing, Product Strategy and Growth at PagerDu...

This week I do a retrospective on the Slight Reliability podcast.👂 How many people listen to it?❤️ How do I feel about the show?🎉 What's going well?🪴 What could be better?❔ What's next for the show?If you want to c...

Have you burned out at work? What was your experience? How did you work through it?This week I'm joined by the incredible Colette Alexander to discuss what burnout is, what it means, and we both share our personal experiences burning out...

This week I'm joined by the wonderful Hanson Ho to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities in making our mobile apps observable! We cover...📱 The mobile/backend observability divide✍️ The challenge of distributed tracing on m...

This week on the I'm joined once more by SRE leader Michelle Casey who gives a broad and shallow introduction to resilience engineering. We cover...🏋️‍♀️ Reliability VS Robustness VS Resilience🧩 What is a complex system?🔢 Safety ...

This week on the 100th episode I'm joined by DevOps and Resilience Engineering legend John Allspaw to talk about learning (especially from incidents). We discuss...📒 Classroom VS situated learning🤝 The myth of the perfect ha...

This week I'm joined by SRE leader Trent Hornibrook who shares a story about how he improved on-call early in his career, and then we explore the broader theme of focusing on the things that matter in observability, incident response, on-call, ...

This week I'm joined by SRE leader Andrew Hatch from Cisco ThousandEyes to talk about a dirty word in the resilience community... root cause. In this excellent conversation we explore...🌌 Is the root cause of every incident the big bang?...

This week I'm joined by David Dick from 2 Steps to (finally!) discuss synthetic monitoring. We cover...🤖 What is synthetic monitoring?🦾 What are the benefits and drawbacks to using it?☢️ Non-web based synthetics (the tough stuff)...

This week I'm joined by Cin7 Engineering Director Milan Brown to unpack the challenges of technology management and leadership. We discuss...✖️ Theory X vs Theory Y management🗣️ Intention based leadership and communication🏢 Condi...

This week Leon Adato and I break down the state of applying for roles in tech. We cover...📝 What a resume or CV is and is not🤝 Leveraging your connections rather than relying on applying cold🪄 How most job descriptions are works ...

This week Priyam Kumar shares his story of moving from a massive organisation to a startup and the challenges and growth that came from that. We discuss...🪖 War stories and examples of production incidents🩹 The "hacks" we build to ke...

This week Michelle Casey shares her insights as a 'head of' engineering manager in the SRE context. This was one of my favourite conversations on the podcast so far. We cover topics such as...🤷🏽 Why move into leadership?👁️ Learning f...

This week Adam and I get philosophical about what constitutes maturity in the field of observability. We tackle questions such as...💸 Does your org treat observability as a cost centre or a value add?🔥 Are you using observability rea...

In this episode I explore the challenges of achieving unified observability when integrating with SaaS products and services. I cover:🌊 The new wave of mega-complex SaaS⚗️ Challenges integrating SaaS with our observability pipelines<...

This week I check in and give an update on work, life, and my attempts at bringing to life SRE practices in the world of non-production environment management.You can find the official Slight Reliability podcast website at:

This week I'm joined by Karanveer Anand, SRE Technical Program Manager at Google to discuss blameless post-mortems. We cover:🦅 The recent Crowdstrike outage and their public post-mortem🚑 When do we do a blameless post-mortem?😕 H...