Slight Reliability Episode 95 - Finding Tech Work with Leon Adato
Send us a textThis week Leon Adato and I break down the state of applying for roles in tech. We cover...📝 What a resume or CV is and is not🤝 Leveraging your connections rather than relying on applying cold🪄 How most job descriptions are works of fiction🦾 White-fonting to game AI resume assessment🧪 Experimental ways we could recruit...and our pitch for Kubernetes the Rock Opera (and much more)You can find Leon's job postings weekly on his website:https://www.adatosystems.com/category/joblistings/You can find Leon on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leonadato/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/leonadato.bsky.socialYou can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
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Slight Reliability Episode 94 - Getting a Start in SRE with Priyam Kumar
Send us a textThis week Priyam Kumar shares his story of moving from a massive organisation to a startup and the challenges and growth that came from that. We discuss...🪖 War stories and examples of production incidents🩹 The "hacks" we build to keep things running (and how maybe that's just normal)😎 Keeping it simple... YAGNI (You Ain't Gonna Need It!)🧯 The perils of getting stuck in reactive mode📖 Areas of of learning if you want to get into SRE...and much much more.You can find Priyam on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/priyam-kumar/You can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
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Slight Reliability Episode 93 - SRE Leadership with Michelle Casey
Send us a textThis week Michelle Casey shares her insights as a 'head of' engineering manager in the SRE context. This was one of my favourite conversations on the podcast so far. We cover topics such as...🤷🏽 Why move into leadership?👁️ Learning from other leaders💎 What is unique about SRE leadership?👑 Women in engineering leadership...and we go through some feedback I got as a leader recently.Resources that Michelle mentions during the episode:The Five Dysfunctions of a Team (book): https://www.tablegroup.com/topics-and-resources/teamwork-5-dysfunctions/The Phoenix Project (novel): https://itrevolution.com/product/the-phoenix-project/The Unicorn Project (novel): https://itrevolution.com/product/the-unicorn-project/How Complex Systems Fail (website): https://how.complexsystems.fail/How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day (talk): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA5U85LSk0MThe Curse of the Systems Thinker (article): https://blog.relyabilit.ie/the-curse-of-systems-thinkers/Confessions of an SRE Manager (talk): https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon23americas/presentation/hatchGender Decoder (website): https://gender-decoder.katmatfield.com/You can find Michelle on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-casey-00b39837/Steve Licks Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tailsofstevielicks?igsh=MWFhenVzdzh6Zmtudw%3D%3DYou can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
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Slight Reliability Episode 92 - Observability Maturity with Ádám Tóth
Send us a textThis week Adam and I get philosophical about what constitutes maturity in the field of observability. We tackle questions such as...💸 Does your org treat observability as a cost centre or a value add?🔥 Are you using observability reactively to solve problems? Or proactively to build better products and services?👤 Is your observability connected to your users and business in a meaningful way?🌐 Is monitoring the social media sentiment of your product part of observability?...and much more.You can find Adam at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-toth-innovateq/InnovaTeQ website: https://innovateq.io/I mentioned the 'This Is Fine!' podcast about resilience engineering. Find it on Spotify or at https://www.thisisfinepod.com/You can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
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Slight Reliability Episode 91 - Head in the Clouds
Send us a textIn this episode I explore the challenges of achieving unified observability when integrating with SaaS products and services. I cover:🌊 The new wave of mega-complex SaaS⚗️ Challenges integrating SaaS with our observability pipelines👩🦯 How the lack of SaaS autonomy limits the effectiveness of OpenTelemetry💰 Paying twice to ingest, store, and search telemetry📈 Monitoring and predicting SaaS observability costs...and much more.Shout out to Mark Chiavaroli (and apologies for mispronouncing your surname multiple times), Damian Sharrock, and Reece Hewitt for bouncing ideas on this topic.The 'Is it observable?' series can be found here: https://isitobservable.io/...and you can find Henrik on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hrexed/You can find Stephen at:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
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