Sarah Butt (Principal Engineer, Centralized Incident Response, Salesforce) and Vrai Stacey (Staff Software Engineer, Google) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to dive into incident response—particularly tooling and software for reliability incidents. Tune in for an in-depth discussion on topics such as the importance of communication and collaboration during incidents, and the role of tooling in supporting incident response processes. Sarah and Vrai also share personal takeaways from incidents they have experienced.

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sarah Butt&lt;/strong&gt; (Principal Engineer, Centralized Incident Response, Salesforce) and &lt;strong&gt;Vrai Stacey&lt;/strong&gt; (Staff Software Engineer, Google) join hosts &lt;strong&gt;Steve McGhee&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Jordan Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt; to dive into incident response—particularly tooling and software for reliability incidents. Tune in for an in-depth discussion on topics such as the importance of communication and collaboration during incidents, and the role of tooling in supporting incident response processes. Sarah and Vrai also share personal takeaways from incidents they have experienced.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Sarah Butt (Principal Engineer, Centralized Incident Response, Salesforce) and Vrai Stacey (Staff Software Engineer, Google) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to dive into incident response—particularly tooling and software for...

Incident Response with Sarah Butt and Vrai Stacey

Silvia Botros (SRE Architect, Twilio | Author of "High Performance MySQL, 4th edition”) and Niall Murphy (Co-founder & CEO, Stanza) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss cultural shifts in database engineering, rate limiting, load shedding, holistic approaches to reliability, proactive measures to build customer trust, and much more!

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Silvia Botros&lt;/strong&gt; (SRE Architect, Twilio | Author of "High Performance MySQL, 4th edition”) and &lt;strong&gt;Niall Murphy&lt;/strong&gt; (Co-founder &amp; CEO, Stanza) join hosts &lt;strong&gt;Steve McGhee&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Jordan Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt;, to discuss cultural shifts in database engineering, rate limiting, load shedding, holistic approaches to reliability, proactive measures to build customer trust, and much more!&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Silvia Botros (SRE Architect, Twilio | Author of "High Performance MySQL, 4th edition”) and Niall Murphy (Co-founder & CEO, Stanza) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss cultural shifts in database engineering, rate limiting,...

Building Reliable Systems with Silvia Botros and Niall Murphy

Liz Fong-Jones (former Google SRE and current Field CTO at honeycomb.io) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg for a lively discussion centered around observability, its evolution from monitoring, and its role in modern software development. Tune in for more on the importance of observability as a spectrum, the evolving role of SREs, and advice to aspiring software engineers.

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Liz Fong-Jones&lt;/strong&gt; (former Google SRE and current Field CTO at honeycomb.io) joins hosts &lt;strong&gt;Steve McGhee&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Jordan Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt; for a lively discussion centered around observability, its evolution from monitoring, and its role in modern software development. Tune in for more on the importance of observability as a spectrum, the evolving role of SREs, and advice to aspiring software engineers.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Liz Fong-Jones (former Google SRE and current Field CTO at honeycomb.io) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg for a lively discussion centered around observability, its evolution from monitoring, and its role in modern software development....

Creating Systems that are Safe with Liz Fong-Jones

Ben Treynor Sloss (VP of Engineering, Google) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Dr. Jennifer Petoff (Director of Technical Infrastructure Education, Google) to share the evolution of SRE and its impact on software development, how AI and ML significantly impacts SRE practices, and the future of SRE. Ben coined the term "Site Reliability Engineering" for his team of (now) 4,000 software engineers, engaged in what were traditionally operations functions. Under Ben's leadership, Google SRE wrote two best-selling books on SRE. Since then, the rest of the SaaS industry has come to adopt the SRE name, mission, and practices.

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ben Treynor Sloss&lt;/strong&gt; (VP of Engineering, Google) joins hosts &lt;strong&gt;Steve McGhee&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Dr. Jennifer Petoff&lt;/strong&gt; (Director of Technical Infrastructure Education, Google) to share the evolution of SRE and its impact on software development, how AI and ML significantly impacts SRE practices, and the future of SRE.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;Ben &lt;em&gt;coined&lt;/em&gt; the term "Site Reliability Engineering" for his team of (now) 4,000 software engineers, engaged in what were traditionally operations functions. Under Ben's leadership, Google SRE wrote two best-selling books on SRE. Since then, the rest of the SaaS industry has come to adopt the SRE name, mission, and practices. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Ben Treynor Sloss (VP of Engineering, Google) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Dr. Jennifer Petoff (Director of Technical Infrastructure Education, Google) to share the evolution of SRE and its impact on software development, how AI and ML significantly...

Production Problems Are For All! with Ben Treynor Sloss

In this episode, Healfdene Goguen (Principal Engineer, Google) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to discuss the vast amount of work to be done by SREs, and the fascinating challenges to tackle with clear real-world implications. It's a truly exciting time to be an SRE at Google!

<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 12pt;"&gt;In this episode, &lt;strong&gt;Healfdene Goguen&lt;/strong&gt; (Principal Engineer, Google) joins hosts &lt;strong&gt;Steve McGhee&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Jordan Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt; to discuss the vast amount of work to be done by SREs, and the fascinating challenges to tackle with clear real-world implications. It's a truly exciting time to be an SRE at Google!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In this episode, Healfdene Goguen (Principal Engineer, Google) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to discuss the vast amount of work to be done by SREs, and the fascinating challenges to tackle with clear real-world implications. It's...

There Remains a Huge Amount of Work to Do, with Healfdene Goguen

SRE Prodcast brings Google's experience with Site Reliability Engineering together with special guests and exciting topics to discuss the present and future of reliable production engineering!

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