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...

This week Zach Michel from https://middleware.io/ and I discuss the state of OpenTelemetry and what it means to adopt it. We cover:🌩️ Achieving observability in a SaaS world🥫 Context propagation ...

In Episode 80 Niall Murphy talked about the need for SREs to be better at articulating the value of our work. In this episode I'm joined by ex-Googler and Engineering Director (SRE) at Culture Amp Artem Yakimenko about how we might achieve this...

In the world of SRE we constantly talk about defining SLOs, but what about evolving them over time? This week I chat with SRE Tech Lead Dom Finn about just that. We cover the relationship between reliability and user analytics, latency classes ...

This week I talk about the impact of SaaS-first technology strategies on the work of an SRE. I pose questions about observability, ownership, on-call, and how much control we have over reliability.You can find the Bleeding Tech blog on ...

This week I chat with Dan Slimmon about applying the approach doctors use to treat patient symptoms during incident response.You can find Dan's blog at https://blog.danslimmon.com/ or connect wi...

This week I hear about all things Kubernetes from Komodor CTO and co-founder Itiel Shwartz. We chat about the promise that was made when Kubernetes first entered the industry, the challenge of getting developers engaged and capable of working i...

This week I sit down and have a discussion with Amin Astaneh (from Certo Modo) about CI/CD. We cover the power of the standard change as a way to navigate ITIL while still implementing DevOps practices, what to monitor to make your CI/CD observ...

"Environment issues are just incidents that happened to occur in a non-production environment"... so why do we treat them so differently?In this first episode of the 2024 season I reflect on how we handle incidents in non-prod environme...

This week I speak with co-author of the original SRE book + the SRE workbook, and renowned speaker Niall Murphy.We chat about the state of SRE in the current macro-economic climate and how we're not yet doing a very good job at articula...

Paige Cruz (from Chronosphere) is back. This week we discuss sampling. What is sampling? Why do it? What kinds of sampling are there?You can check out Chronosphere's cloud native observability platform here:

This week Valeska Victoria returns to share some of her experiences working as an SRE at eBay.We look at the cascading effect of production issues in complex integrated environments (how there's often no single root cause), developer li...

This week I chat with Ankit Jain from aviator.co about developer experience.We define developer experience and developer productivity, and how this applies to SRE. We discuss the growing expectation on developers and how this leads to f...

A brief mid-week update on my changing circumstances and the future of the podcast.

This week I had the privilege of interviewing Liz Fong-Jones from honeycomb.io about DevRel, Developer Advocacy, and how that applies to SRE.We discuss the difference between Developer Relations (DevRel) and Developer Advocacy, how Liz ...

This week I had the honour of chatting with Steve McGhee (former Google SRE, current Google Reliability Advocate, and co-author of Enterprise Roadmap to SRE).We discuss the evolution of SRE from where it began at Google and how it is be...

This week on Slight Reliability Stephen discusses observability vendor lock-in. What is it? What does OpenTelemetry do to help? What areas are yet to be solved?You can find the official Slight Reliability podcast website at:

This week we sit down and talk about SLOs with CPO and co-founder of Nobl9 Brian Singer.We talk about the importance of reviewing operational effectiveness, getting buy in from leadership, using SLOs to reduce noise, how to implement SL...