Slight Reliability

Stephen Townshend

Learning SRE, one day at a time.

  1. 5月5日

    Being a Digital Nomad with Amin Astaneh (Episode 122)

    Send us Fan Mail Can you combine your career with personal adventure? What would it be like to live in a truck and travel the country while working remotely? This week I'm joined again by SRE & DevOps legend Amin Astaneh in one of the most human interviews I've ever done. We explore... 💉 The impact of the post-Covid layoffs 🛻 The logistics of living in a mobile home 💥 Staring a consultancy ❤️ The impact of the nomad lifestyle on relationships 🧸 Being woken up by a giant black bear ...and much more. You can find Amin on... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aminastaneh/ His website: https://certomodo.io/ and the Reliability Rebels podcast: https://podcast.certomodo.io/ Companies that Amin partners with... Nobl9 (SLOs as a service): https://www.nobl9.com/ LearnKube (Kubernes education): https://learnkube.com/ Amin also mentioned Go Fast Campers if you were interested (I have no partnership or even knowledge of this company, just putting it here in case anyone was interested in seeing what Amin's living space looks like): https://gofastcampers.com/ You can buy Slight Reliability merch here (Note: you cannot order the mugs outside of New Zealand): https://slightreliability.digitees.co.nz/ You can find Stephen on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliability Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre

    Being a Digital Nomad with Amin Astaneh (Episode 122)
  2. 4月7日

    Staying Motivated as a Leader with Cads Oakley (Episode 120)

    Send us Fan Mail As an engineer you get constant dopamine hits by solving technical problems. As a leader you're often working toward long term goals that span months or years. How do you stay motivated in that context? This week I'm joined by technology leader and fellow Aucklander Cads Oakley. We cover... 🐆 Don't chase the result, harvest the learning 🏆 The payoff for being a leader 🎁 Giving feedback and giving others permission to give it to you 💉 The role of dopamine 🤷 How much control do we really have in our work? ...and much more. You can find Cads on... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cadsoakley/ Website: https://aurelia.nz/ Content mentioned during the episode... Cads' article on the role of dopamine: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/managing-dopamine-mind-cædman-cads-oakley/ "Happy" by Derren Brown https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30142270-happy What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Marshall Goldsmith https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/1401301304 You can buy Slight Reliability merch here (Note: you cannot order the mugs outside of New Zealand): https://slightreliability.digitees.co.nz/ You can find Stephen on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliability Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre

    Staying Motivated as a Leader with Cads Oakley (Episode 120)
  3. 3月10日

    Freeing Observability Data Hostages with Jacob Leverich (Episode 118)

    Send us Fan Mail How do you ingest and store petabytes of telemetry every day in a cost effective and high performing way? How can you do this in a way which gives engineers the operational data they need to keep services running? How has this challenge be tackled in the past and what's been the evolution? This week I'm joined by Observe co-founder Jacob Leverich to go deep into this topic. We discuss... 💾 A deep-dive into the evolution of telemetry storage and where it's going 💽 The advent of generic storage that handles metrics, logs, and traces well 🫶 Having empathy for people who need great observability but struggle to obtain it 🤲 Not holding telemetry data hostage ✍️ Lessons from 8 years of running a start-up ...and much more. You can find Jacob on... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-leverich/ And find out more about Observe here: https://www.observeinc.com/ In the episode Jacob referred to Google's Dremel analysis platform: https://research.google/pubs/dremel-interactive-analysis-of-web-scale-datasets-2/ And Apache Iceberg: https://iceberg.apache.org/ You can buy Slight Reliability merch here (Note: you cannot order the mugs outside of New Zealand): https://slightreliability.digitees.co.nz/ You can find Stephen on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliability Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre

    Freeing Observability Data Hostages with Jacob Leverich (Episode 118)

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Learning SRE, one day at a time.