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October 2024

September 2024

#59 Who handles monitoring in your team and how?
Monitoring responsibilities vary between organizations, and how your team handles them might differ significantly from others, especially companies like…
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Ash Patel
 and 
Sebastian Vietz
8:17
#58 Fixing Monitoring's Bad Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Sebastian and I looked further into common pitfalls in monitoring. A major issue is the poor signal-to-noise ratio of data. This often results from…
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Ash Patel
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Sebastian Vietz
2
8:26
#57 How Technical Leads Support Software Reliability
You might be familiar with the term, “technical lead”. You might even be working with one or a few right now. But how well do you know their ability to…
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Ash Patel
 and 
Anemari Fiser
31:34
#56 Resolving DORA Metrics Mistakes
I asked Nathen Harvey who is lead DORA advocate at Google about some of the mistakes people make. The major ones seem to come down to management…
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Ash Patel
 and 
Nathen Harvey
26:47

August 2024

#55 3 Uses for Monitoring Data Other Than Alerts and Dashboards
I've noticed that many engineers use monitoring data mainly for only 2 uses: alerts and dashboards. There are a few more things engineers can do with…
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Ash Patel
 and 
Sebastian Vietz
11:01
#54 Becoming a Valuable Engineer Without Sacrificing Your Sanity
I heard Shlomo Bielak, a VP of Engineering, talk last year in downtown Toronto about the troubles that engineers face in trying to move linearly upward…
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Ash Patel
37:22
#53 What's Missing in Incident Response Processes?
Bonus clip from my chat with Dr Vladislav Ukis about the issues that beginner's to reliability work fall into during incident response
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Ash Patel
9:43
Can ITIL Benefit from Site Reliability Engineering?
I asked Dr Vladislav Ukis this question after noticing that ITIL people are checking reliability engineering out. Here's his answer...
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Ash Patel
29:23
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