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SE Radio 569: Vladyslav Ukis on Rolling out SRE in an Enterprise

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SE Radio 569: Vladyslav Ukis on Rolling out SRE in an Enterprise

Vladyslav Ukis, author of the book Establishing SRE Foundations: A Step-by-Step Guide to Introducing Site Reliability Engineering in Software Delivery Organizations, discusses how to roll out SRE in an enterprise. SE Radio host Brijesh Ammanath speaks with Vlad about the origins of SRE and how it complements ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library). They examine how […]

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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 470: L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing

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Episode 470: L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing

L. Peter Deutsch of Aladdin Enterprises and formerly of Sun Microsystems joined host Jeff Doolittle to discuss the fallacies of distributed computing. Peter retold the history of the fallacies themselves and corrected some frequent misattributions and misunderstandings regarding their origin. The discussion also addressed interrelationships between the fallacies and changes in the relevance of particular […]

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Episode 430: Marco Faella on Seriously Good Software

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Episode 430: Marco Faella on Seriously Good Software

Marco Faella, author of Seriously Good Software discusses how to create good software, using six different ‘qualities’ of code. Felienne spoke with Faella about reliability, space and time complexity, readability, reusability, and thread safety. They also discussed how these qualities are often at odds with each other when creating software, and how to deal with […]

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SE-Radio Episode 276: Björn Rabenstein on Site Reliability Engineering

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SE-Radio Episode 276: Björn Rabenstein on Site Reliability Engineering

Björn Rabenstein discusses the field of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with host Robert Blumen. The term SRE has recently emerged to mean Google’s approach to DevOps. The publication of Google’s book on SRE has brought many of their practices into more public discussion. The interview covers: what is distinct about SRE versus devops; the SRE […]

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