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June 2024

#48 Cutting Down "Toil" aka Manual Work in Software
Reliability-focused engineering is famous across other disciplines for one thing in particular: reducing toil. More specifically, we look into what it…
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Ash Patel
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Sebastian Vietz
44:03
How to Resolve Bad Observability Data Quality
Observability, data, and quality. If these 3 words don’t mean much to you, stop reading. Really. It means this guide is not for you. You can enjoy some…
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Ash Patel
#47 How to Grow Team Impact Through Learning Culture
This topic is not 100% focused on reliability BUT its ideas will 100% support efforts to improve your team's reliability work and value to the…
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Ash Patel
 and 
Sorrel Harriet
28:37
#46 Platform Team Design According to Team Team Topologies
8 more takeaways - this time on platform team design - from my chat with Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies.
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Ash Patel
24:07
How to Solve 3 Data Flow Issues in Observability
Going into an incident, the last thing you want is an incomplete picture of what’s going on under the hood. That’s what can happen when you have…
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Ash Patel
1
#45 How Team Topologies Can Guide Enabling Teams
Reliability work involves a lot of enabling others so here are 8 takeaways on that from Manuel Pais, co-author of Team Topologies PLUS announcing this…
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Ash Patel
25:08

May 2024

#44 - Making SLOs Matter to Stakeholders
Bonus episode on SLOs because Sebastian and I felt that we did not cover the why of SLOs and make them relevant to stakeholders.
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Ash Patel
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Sebastian Vietz
20:22
#43 - SLOs: a Deeper Dive into its Mechanics
This episode continues our coverage of Chapter 4 of the Site Reliability Engineering book (2016). In this second part, we take a deeper dive into the…
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Ash Patel
 and 
Sebastian Vietz
31:43
Get to know OpenTelemetry without the confusion
OpenTelemetry is the 2nd most popular CNCF project ever. It can boost your observability and is not rocket science once you get the hang of it. But it…
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Ash Patel
2
#42 - Hitting Software SLA Targets through SLOs and SLIs
In this first part of a 2-part coverage, Sebastian Vietz and I work out how to meet SLAs through SLOs and SLIs. This episode covers Chapter 4 of the…
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Ash Patel
 and 
Sebastian Vietz
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