Send us a text In this episode I discuss potential pre-requisites that are ideally in place before attempting to adopt SLOs. You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-times License code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDIC Outro: https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyager License code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM...
Jul 04, 2022•12 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Send us a text In this episode I share my updated thinking on SLOs and an "ah-ha!" moment I had. You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-times License code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDIC Outro: https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyager License code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM...
Jun 27, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Send us a text What is latency and how does it relate to customer experience? Where do you measure it? Why do the metrics we choose to capture matter? You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-times License code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDIC Outro: https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyager License code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM...
Jun 13, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Send us a text When it comes to reliability SLO's and NFR's are both *somewhat* related in that they allow us to describe the level of service we want to provide our customers. So how do they match up head to head? You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-times License code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDIC Outro: https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyager Licen...
Jun 06, 2022•10 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Send us a text What is an error? Where do you measure errors? How do they relate to SLO's and error budgets? You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-times License code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDIC Outro: https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyager License code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM...
May 30, 2022•13 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Send us a text In this episode we discuss the observability concept of a 'single pane of glass' view, and I share my experience implementing one. You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-times License code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDIC Outro: https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyager License code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM...
May 23, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Send us a text In this episode I share my thoughts from SLOconf, a conference all about Service Level Objectives (SLO's). You can find all the talks (actually 60 of them!) from SLOconf here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgZm2Bp2-AQ&list=PLLNq9CBV7AFwkXvYmjPPIQlRDVwTmacEK You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento... Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-times License code: QBXDSEG...
May 16, 2022•10 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Send us a text In this episode I provide three more (p)re-reactions to upcoming sessions at o11yfest 2022 (a conference all about observability). The talks I cover are: "Obserability driven development" by Jessica Kerr "Return on investment driven observability" by Michael Hausenblas "How the OpenTelemetry Collector puts you in the driver seat" by Alex Boten I am also speaking at o11yfest. You can watch my talk on Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th: https://o11yfest.org/ You ...
May 04, 2022•13 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Send us a text In this episode I provide a (p)re-reaction to three of the talks that will be included in the upcoming 2022 o11yfest conference (a conference all about observability). The talks I cover are: "Where the heck are my spans?" by Reese Lee "Confidence in chaos" by Narmatha Bala "Is MTTR still relevant in a modern, cloud native world?" by Martin Mao I am also speaking at o11yfest. You can watch my talk on Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th: https://o11yfest.org/ You ...
May 02, 2022•18 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Send us a text How do you measure the availability of your services? What metric do you pick? What layer of the solution do you track it from? My colleague Gwen and I are sharing our SLO definition workshop experience at SLOconf from May 9th to 12th: https://www.sloconf.com/ You can also watch my talk on Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th: https://o11yfest.org/ You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre Mu...
Apr 11, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Send us a text In the episode I share our team's experience defining SLO's, and how we experimented and pivoted to achieve better outcomes. As discussed in the episode, if you would like to hear (and see) more about our SLO workshop, my colleague Gwen and I are speaking at SLOconf from May 9th to 12th: https://www.sloconf.com/ You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento ... Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://u...
Apr 04, 2022•14 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Send us a text What are even more antipatterns to avoid in monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging? Shout out to James Pulley for his contribution to this episode. James is one of the world's leading experts on performance engineering and can be found on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslpulley3/ I will be presenting about Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th 2022: https://o11yfest.org/ You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento... Twi...
Mar 28, 2022•11 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Send us a text What are some more antipatterns to avoid in monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging? Shout out to Raguraman Balasubramanian (https://www.linkedin.com/in/raguraman-balasubramanian-070150108/) for his contribution to this episode. You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephento... Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-times License code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDIC Outro: https://uppbeat...
Mar 21, 2022•16 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Send us a text What are some antipatterns to avoid in monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging? Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-times License code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDIC Outro: https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyager License code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM
Mar 14, 2022•17 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Send us a text What is SRE *really* about? How did it start? What do I *want* it to be? What is it being implemented as in the industry? Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!). Intro: https://uppbeat.io/t/sensho/good-times License code: QBXDSEGNJZY9DDIC Outro: https://uppbeat.io/t/mountaineer/voyager License code: 5C0VMTUOULFSRSTM
Mar 07, 2022•10 min•Season 2Ep. 1
