Episode 228: Web Apps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with Brian Love

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Recording date: March, 23, 2023

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Brian Love @Brian_love

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Google Books on SRE
• What is SRE
• Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Reliable systems in DevOps
• Ping test
• Voting with your feet
• What is an SLA
• Service Level Objectives and Indicators
• SLA vs SLO vs SLI
• SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, oh my:
• Interview with Dave Rensen, SRE Engineering Director on the SRE Workbook:
• The Origins of SRE
• What it means to be a SRE
• Get Polaris (SRE tool)
• Send Beacon API
• GitHub Copilot X
• Prompt Engineering
• Learn with Introduction to Prompt Engineering

Timejumps

• 00:29 Welcome
• 01:37 Guest introduction
• 02:55 What is SRE?
• 05:38 What is it like if you don't have an SRE?
• 09:29 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 10:36 Available vs reliable
• 13:35 Is SRE the same as health monitoring?
• 21:29 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 22:30 How do I make sure I don't cause more reliability issues?
• 27:36 Who's providing the infastructure?
• 31:04 Where's the AI in all of this?
• 33:59 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.