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SE Radio 565: Luca Galante on Platform Engineering

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SE Radio 565: Luca Galante on Platform Engineering

Luca Galante, head of product at Humanitec, joins host Jeff Doolittle for a conversation about platform engineering. They begin by defining platform engineering and its relationship to, and distinction from, DevOps. Tracing platform engineering’s history, Luca describes how internal developer platforms are fundamental, and then explores the goals of addressing complexity and reducing the cognitive […]

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SE Radio 556: Alex Boten on Open Telemetry

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SE Radio 556: Alex Boten on Open Telemetry

Software engineer Alex Boten, author of Cloud Native Observability with Open Telemetry, joins host Robert Blumen for a conversation about software telemetry and the OpenTelemetry project. After a brief review of the topic and the OpenTelemetry project’s origins rooted in the need for interoperability between telemetry sources and back ends, they discuss the OpenTelemetry server […]

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Episode 550: J.R. Storment and Mike Fuller on Cloud FinOps (Financial Operations)

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Episode 550: J.R. Storment and Mike Fuller on Cloud FinOps (Financial Operations)

J.R. Storment and Mike Fuller discuss cloud financial operations (FinOps) with host Akshay Manchale. They consider the importance of a financial operations strategy for cloud-based infrastructure. J.R. and Mike discuss the differences between operating your own data center and running in the cloud, as well as the problems that doing so creates in understanding and […]

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Episode 548: Alex Hidalgo on Implementing Service-Level Objectives

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Episode 548: Alex Hidalgo on Implementing Service-Level Objectives

Alex Hidalgo, principal reliability advocate at Nobl9 and author of Implementing Service Level Objectives, joins SE Radio’s Robert Blumen for a discussion of service-level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. The conversation covers the meaning of a service level; service levels and product ownership; the pervasive nature of imperfection; and why trying to be perfect is […]

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Episode 544: Ganesh Datta on DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering

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Episode 544: Ganesh Datta on DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering

Ganesh Datta, CTO and cofounder of Cortex, joins SE Radio’s Priyanka Raghavan to discuss site reliability engineering (SRE) vs DevOps. They examine the similarities and differences and how to use the two approaches together to build better software platforms. The show starts with a review of basic terms; definitions of roles, similarities and differences; skillsets […]

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