Google SRE Prodcast

Profiling data with Pat Somaru and Narayan Desai Oct 30, 2024

In this episode, guests Narayan Desai (Principal SRE, Google) and Pat Somaru (Senior Production Engineer, Meta) join hosts Steve McGhee and Florian Rathgeber to discuss the challenges of observability and working with profiling data. The discussion covers intriguing topics like noise reduction, workload modeling, and the need for better tools and techniques to handle high-cardinality data.

Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) with Wilmer van der Gaast and Andy Sykes Oct 23, 2024

This episode features Google engineers Wilmer van der Gaast (Production on-tall) and Andy Sykes (Senior Staff Systems Engineer, SRE), joining hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss the development and maintenance of Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8). They highlight the initial motivations for creating the service, technical challenges like cache poisoning and load balancing, as well as the collaborative effort between SRE and SWE teams to address these issues. They also reflect on the evolving nature of SRE and advice for aspiring SREs.

SRE in the Retail and Gaming Worlds with Jordan Chernev & Scott Bowers Oct 16, 2024

Guests Jordan Chernev (Senior Technology Executive) and Scott Bowers (SRE, Gearbox Software) who hail from the retail and gaming industries, respectively, join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to discuss the unique challenges of Site Reliability Engineering in their industries. They share the importance of aligning SLOs with user experience, strategies for handling spikes in traffic, communicating with users during outages, and investing in reliability.

Incident Response with Sarah Butt and Vrai Stacey Oct 09, 2024

Sarah Butt (Principal Engineer, Centralized Incident Response, Salesforce) and Vrai Stacey (Staff Software Engineer, Google) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to dive into incident response—particularly tooling and software for reliability incidents. Tune in for an in-depth discussion on topics such as the importance of communication and collaboration during incidents, and the role of tooling in supporting incident response processes. Sarah and Vrai also share personal takeaways from incidents they have experienced.

Building Reliable Systems with Silvia Botros and Niall Murphy Oct 02, 2024

Silvia Botros (SRE Architect, Twilio | Author of "High Performance MySQL, 4th edition”) and Niall Murphy (Co-founder & CEO, Stanza) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss cultural shifts in database engineering, rate limiting, load shedding, holistic approaches to reliability, proactive measures to build customer trust, and much more!

Creating Systems that are Safe with Liz Fong-Jones Sep 25, 2024

Liz Fong-Jones (former Google SRE and current Field CTO at honeycomb.io) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg for a lively discussion centered around observability, its evolution from monitoring, and its role in modern software development. Tune in for more on the importance of observability as a spectrum, the evolving role of SREs, and advice to aspiring software engineers.

Production Problems Are For All! with Ben Treynor Sloss Sep 18, 2024

Ben Treynor Sloss (VP of Engineering, Google) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Dr. Jennifer Petoff (Director of Technical Infrastructure Education, Google) to share the evolution of SRE and its impact on software development, how AI and ML significantly impacts SRE practices, and the future of SRE.

Ben coined the term "Site Reliability Engineering" for his team of (now) 4,000 software engineers, engaged in what were traditionally operations functions. Under Ben's leadership, Google SRE wrote two best-selling books on SRE. Since then, the rest of the SaaS industry has come to adopt the SRE name, mission, and practices.

There Remains a Huge Amount of Work to Do, with Healfdene Goguen Sep 11, 2024

In this episode, Healfdene Goguen (Principal Engineer, Google) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to discuss the vast amount of work to be done by SREs, and the fascinating challenges to tackle with clear real-world implications. It's a truly exciting time to be an SRE at Google!

SRE, a Basis of Influence, with Amy Tobey & Vladyslav Ukis Sep 04, 2024

In this season of Google Prodcast, current and former SREs, both within and outside of Google, chat with hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to discuss software systems designed and built by SREs.

For "episode zero", guests Amy Tobey (Live Services SRE, Netflix) and Dr. Vladyslav Ukis (Head of R&D, Siemens Healthineers, Author of "Establishing SRE Foundations") will set the stage for the season with a lively discussion about what Software Engineering means to Site Reliability Engineering.

Life of An SRE: Life after Google SRE, with Carla Geisser, Cody Smith, and Laura Nolan Nov 07, 2023

Former Google SREs, or "Xooglers", talk with hosts MP and Steve McGhee about site reliability engineering outside of Google. What’s the difference in scale? What skills are generally valuable? And why can’t you build “SRE in a box” that jump-starts pretty much any organization?

Join Carla Geisser, Cody Smith, and Laura Nolan in their lively conversation about what SRE skills and knowledge they have found useful in roles outside of Google.

Life of An SRE with Sabrina Farmer Oct 31, 2023

Sabrina Farmer, VP of Engineering at Google, talks about her career journey through Site Reliability Engineering. What does management mean? What’s involved in being an effective manager? and what’s a feasibility study? Hear some great advice on how to get what you expect out of a role, wherever on the ladder it is.

Life of An SRE with Dave Reisner Oct 17, 2023

Dave Reisner talks about his path to Staff SRE, from ArchLinux contributor through DevOps to software engineer. This episode emphasizes the value of strong mentoring and manager relationships, and the challenges of work-life balance.

Life of an SRE with Stephen Benjamin Oct 10, 2023

Explore the role and responsibilities of an SRE manager with Stephen Benjamin.

Life of An SRE with Jessica Theodat Oct 03, 2023

Explore the role and responsibilities of a Senior SRE with Jessica Theodat, as she discusses life-work balance, the value of mentoring, and being a Black woman in SRE.

Life of An SRE with Shannon Brady and Theo Klein Sep 26, 2023

Explore the career path of SREs Shannon Brady and Theo Klein as they discusses their paths to Site Reliability Engineering and finding their areas of expertise.

Life of An SRE with Mariuxi Vasconez and Julian Alarcon Sep 19, 2023

In this episode, Mariuxi and Julian discuss their paths to SRE: what drew them initially to SRE, and what motivates them to continue developing skills

Life of An SRE Episode 1: Tom Cranitch and Megan Yin Sep 12, 2023

How does one become an SRE? And what’s the career like? In this episode, Tom and Megan discuss their path to SRE.

Creating the SRE Prodcast with John Reese (JTR) Jun 07, 2022

Host MP English and former Google SRE John Reese (JTR) chat about the creation of the Prodcast.

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Postmortems with Ayelet Sachto May 31, 2022

Ayelet Sachto offers advice on creating an actionable, transparent, and blameless postmortem culture.

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Incident Management with Adrienne Walcer May 24, 2022

Adrienne Walcer discusses how to approach and organize incident management efforts throughout the production lifecycle.

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On-Call Rotations with Andrew Widdowson (APW) May 17, 2022

Andrew Widdowson (APW) shares strategies for successful on-call rotations.

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Automation with Pierre Palatin May 10, 2022

Pierre Palatin dives into different automation strategies, how to build confidence in your system, and why designing the UI may be your biggest challenge.

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Client-Transparent Migrations with Pavan Adharapurapu May 03, 2022

Pavan Adharapurapu details how to approach large-scale migrations while optimizing for user experience.

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Rethinking SLOs with Narayan Desai Apr 26, 2022

Narayan Desai explains why SLOs can be problematic and proposes alternative methods for monitoring complex, large-scale systems.

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Alerting with Amelia Harrison Apr 19, 2022

Amelia Harrison advises on when and how to alert, ideal coverage, and tuning.

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Customer-Centric Monitoring with Silvia Esparrachiari Apr 12, 2022

Silvia Esparrachiari talks about the challenges of monitoring and the importance of understanding your users.

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SRE Philosophy with Jennifer Mace (Macey) Apr 05, 2022

What is SRE, anyway? Jennifer Mace (Macey) gives us her definition of "site reliability engineer," discusses how to manage risk, and shares key questions to ask developers.

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