In this episode of the Prodcast, guests Dominic Hutton (Staff SRE, HashiCorp) and Niccolo' Cascarano (Senior Staff SRE at Google) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to dive into configurations. They discuss the differences between imperative and declarative configuration, explore the benefits and challenges of each approach, and the need for careful consideration when choosing between the two. Ultimately, the goal is to achieve reliable and maintainable systems through effective configuration management.

<description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the Prodcast, guests &lt;strong&gt;Dominic Hutton&lt;/strong&gt; (Staff SRE, HashiCorp) and &lt;strong&gt;Niccolo' Cascarano&lt;/strong&gt; (Senior Staff SRE at Google) join hosts &lt;strong&gt;Steve McGhee&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Jordan Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt; to dive into configurations. They discuss the differences between imperative and declarative configuration, explore the benefits and challenges of each approach, and the need for careful consideration when choosing between the two. Ultimately, the goal is to achieve reliable and maintainable systems through effective configuration management.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In this episode of the Prodcast, guests Dominic Hutton (Staff SRE, HashiCorp) and Niccolo' Cascarano (Senior Staff SRE at Google) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to dive into configurations. They discuss the differences between imperative...

Imperative vs. Declarative Change Workflows with Dominic Hutton & Niccolo' Cascarano

This episode features Casey Rosenthal (Founder, Cirrusly.ai) and John Allspaw (Founder and Principal, Adaptive Capacity Labs), joining our hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg. Together they discuss how resilience appears in Software Engineering and SRE and explore the importance of understanding the human factors involved in adapting to system failures—highlighting the need for a more qualitative and holistic approach to understanding how engineers successfully adapt to system behavior and improving overall reliability.

<description>&lt;p&gt;This episode features &lt;strong&gt;Casey Rosenthal&lt;/strong&gt; (Founder, Cirrusly.ai) and &lt;strong&gt;John Allspaw&lt;/strong&gt; (Founder and Principal, Adaptive Capacity Labs), joining our hosts &lt;strong&gt;Steve McGhee&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Jordan Greenberg&lt;/strong&gt;. Together they discuss how resilience appears in Software Engineering and SRE and explore the importance of understanding the human factors involved in adapting to system failures—highlighting the need for a more qualitative and holistic approach to understanding how engineers successfully adapt to system behavior and improving overall reliability.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

This episode features Casey Rosenthal (Founder, Cirrusly.ai) and John Allspaw (Founder and Principal, Adaptive Capacity Labs), joining our hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg. Together they discuss how resilience appears in Software Engineering...

Human Factors in Complex Systems with Casey Rosenthal and John Allspaw

In this episode of the Prodcast, we are joined by guests Christina Schulman (Staff SRE, Google) and Dr. Laura Maguire (Principal Engineer, Trace Cognitive Engineering). They emphasize the human element of SRE and the importance of fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and resilience in managing complex systems. They touch upon topics such as the need for diverse perspectives and collaboration in incident response, the necessity of embracing complexity, and explore concepts such as aerodynamic stability, and more.

<description>&lt;p&gt;In this episode of the Prodcast, we are joined by guests &lt;strong&gt;Christina Schulman&lt;/strong&gt; (Staff SRE, Google) and &lt;strong&gt;Dr. Laura Maguire&lt;/strong&gt; (Principal Engineer, Trace Cognitive Engineering). They emphasize the human element of SRE and the importance of fostering a culture of collaboration, learning, and resilience in managing complex systems. They touch upon topics such as the need for diverse perspectives and collaboration in incident response, the necessity of embracing complexity, and explore concepts such as aerodynamic stability, and more.&lt;/p&gt;</description>

In this episode of the Prodcast, we are joined by guests Christina Schulman (Staff SRE, Google) and Dr. Laura Maguire (Principal Engineer, Trace Cognitive Engineering). They emphasize the human element of SRE and the importance of fostering a...

Embracing Complexity with Christina Schulman & Dr. Laura Maguire

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

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