In this episode, Cody Smith (CTO and Co-founder, Camus Energy) & Trisha Weir (SRE Department Lead, Google) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss their experience developing Maglev, a highly available and distributed network load balancer (NLB) that is an integral part of the cloud architecture that manages traffic that comes in to a datacenter. Starting with Maglev’s humble beginnings as a skunkworks effort, Cody and Trisha recount the challenges they faced, and emphasize the importance of psychological safety, collaboration, and adaptability in SRE innovation.

<description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, &lt;strong&gt;Cody Smith&lt;/strong&gt; (CTO and Co-founder, Camus Energy) &amp; &lt;strong&gt;Trisha Weir&lt;/strong&gt; (SRE Department Lead, Google) join hosts &lt;strong&gt;Steve McGhee&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Jordan Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt;, to discuss their experience developing &lt;em&gt;Maglev&lt;/em&gt;, a highly available and distributed network load balancer (NLB) that is an integral part of the cloud architecture that manages traffic that comes in to a datacenter. Starting with Maglev’s humble beginnings as a skunkworks effort, Cody and Trisha recount the challenges they faced, and emphasize the importance of psychological safety, collaboration, and adaptability in SRE innovation.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In this episode, Cody Smith (CTO and Co-founder, Camus Energy) & Trisha Weir (SRE Department Lead, Google) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss their experience developing Maglev, a highly available and distributed network...

Maglev: load balancing at Google with Cody Smith and Trisha Weir

In this episode, guests Narayan Desai (Principal SRE, Google) and Pat Somaru (Senior Production Engineer, Meta) join hosts Steve McGhee and Florian Rathgeber to discuss the challenges of observability and working with profiling data. The discussion covers intriguing topics like noise reduction, workload modeling, and the need for better tools and techniques to handle high-cardinality data.

<description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode, guests &lt;strong&gt;Narayan Desai&lt;/strong&gt; (Principal SRE, Google) and &lt;strong&gt;Pat Somaru&lt;/strong&gt; (Senior Production Engineer, Meta) join hosts &lt;strong&gt;Steve McGhee&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Florian Rathgeber&lt;/strong&gt; to discuss the challenges of observability and working with profiling data. The discussion covers intriguing topics like noise reduction, workload modeling, and the need for better tools and techniques to handle high-cardinality data.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In this episode, guests Narayan Desai (Principal SRE, Google) and Pat Somaru (Senior Production Engineer, Meta) join hosts Steve McGhee and Florian Rathgeber to discuss the challenges of observability and working with profiling data. The discussion...

Profiling data with Pat Somaru and Narayan Desai

This episode features Google engineers Wilmer van der Gaast (Production on-tall) and Andy Sykes (Senior Staff Systems Engineer, SRE), joining hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss the development and maintenance of Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8). They highlight the initial motivations for creating the service, technical challenges like cache poisoning and load balancing, as well as the collaborative effort between SRE and SWE teams to address these issues. They also reflect on the evolving nature of SRE and advice for aspiring SREs.

<description>&lt;p&gt;This episode features Google engineers &lt;strong&gt;Wilmer van der Gaast&lt;/strong&gt; (Production on-tall) and &lt;strong&gt;Andy Sykes&lt;/strong&gt; (Senior Staff Systems Engineer, SRE), joining hosts &lt;strong&gt;Steve McGhee&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Jordan Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt;, to discuss the development and maintenance of Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8). They highlight the initial motivations for creating the service, technical challenges like cache poisoning and load balancing, as well as the collaborative effort between SRE and SWE teams to address these issues. They also reflect on the evolving nature of SRE and advice for aspiring SREs.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

This episode features Google engineers Wilmer van der Gaast (Production on-tall) and Andy Sykes (Senior Staff Systems Engineer, SRE), joining hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss the development and maintenance of Google Public DNS...

Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) with Wilmer van der Gaast and Andy Sykes

Guests Jordan Chernev (Senior Technology Executive) and Scott Bowers (SRE, Gearbox Software) who hail from the retail and gaming industries, respectively, join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg  to discuss the unique challenges of Site Reliability Engineering in their industries. They share the importance of aligning SLOs with user experience, strategies for handling spikes in traffic, communicating with users during outages, and investing in reliability.

<description>&lt;p&gt;Guests &lt;strong&gt;Jordan Chernev&lt;/strong&gt; (Senior Technology Executive) and &lt;strong&gt;Scott Bowers&lt;/strong&gt; (SRE, Gearbox Software) who hail from the retail and gaming industries, respectively, join&lt;strong id= "docs-internal-guid-ecc040d9-7fff-33dd-1173-d474ca8d312b"&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;hosts &lt;strong id= "docs-internal-guid-ecc040d9-7fff-33dd-1173-d474ca8d312b"&gt;Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt;  to discuss the unique challenges of Site Reliability Engineering in their industries. They share the importance of aligning SLOs with user experience, strategies for handling spikes in traffic, communicating with users during outages, and investing in reliability.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

Guests Jordan Chernev (Senior Technology Executive) and Scott Bowers (SRE, Gearbox Software) who hail from the retail and gaming industries, respectively, join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg  to discuss the unique challenges of Site...

SRE in the Retail and Gaming Worlds with Jordan Chernev & Scott Bowers

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

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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