The Downtime Project

I think y’all are doing a fantastic job of throughly digging into these outages while keeping all of the feedback purely constructive. I’ve been highly recommending this to all of my coworkers since discovering it. Keep up the great work!

As a relatively junior software engineer there are a ton of “common sense” things that Tom and Jamie review for outages that I’ve never heard about before and that are low hanging fruit for most companies. This podcast is a must listen for software engineers everywhere.

I’ve been learning about system design concepts from The System Design Primer and other resources. This podcast makes for a good pairing, I find it instructive to learn how different components can break down and lead to an outage. It is easier to wrap my head around the components when I have this context.

I’m new to programming, so I really enjoy learning from the expertise of been-there-done-that senior software engineers.