Today's experiment... I wrote my first #golang script to generate load against my app, then implemented very simple head based sampling using the #OTEL collector. It's not super practical in the real world, I'm just keeping 5% of all traces. #opentelemetry #observability

I'm currently reading Leading Change by John P. Kotter. It describes the number one error organisations make is too much complacency across an organisation. Real and lasting change needs people who understand there is a need to change and a willingness to try something new.

This week on #SlightReliability I chat with Dr. Vlad Ukis (author of the book "Establishing SRE Foundations" and head of R&D at Siemens Healthineers) about implementing #SRE. #SLO #SLI #devops youtube.com/watch?v=PPiCm_…

In my previous article I auto-instrumented #NodeJS for traces using #OpenTelemetry. In this second blog I introduce the #OTEL collector and show you how to set it up in #Docker. #observability #sre squaredup.com/blog/getting-s…

This week on #SlightReliability Valeska Victoria and I discuss the challenge of rapidly investigating incidents in high pressure situations, being an #SRE right out of university, and much more! #reliability #oncall #ops youtube.com/watch?v=RnJvr8…

This week on #SlightReliability I get a little #SLO therapy with Brian Singer from @Nobl9inc. We go over some of the (failed) experiences I had trying to implement #SLOs in the past and explore how things could have gone differently. #SRE #SLI youtube.com/watch?v=F5Y3lB…

This week on #SlightReliability: #OTEL addresses one aspect of #observability vendor lock-in, but there's another aspect we're not yet addressing. #sre #data #cost #monitoring youtube.com/watch?v=YDXw9r…

Unfortunately, I don't have a Slight Reliability episode for you this week. As is tradition, I've written a haiku for you instead. Something that's been on my mind recently as I close in on my 40th birthday. #slightreliability

This week on #SlightReliability I chat with Google Reliability Advocate Steve McGhee about how enterprises around the world are adopting #SRE. (PS... You can also find Slight Reliability on most podcast apps) youtube.com/watch?v=v4O5XS…

This week on #SlightReliability @paigerduty is back! This time we dive into sampling of distributed traces. We cover... 🧪 What is sampling? 🤯 What constitutes an interesting trace? 🦘 Head based VS tail based ...and much more. #SRE #observability youtube.com/watch?v=GYwjeE…

Hello Slight Reliability listeners/watchers! I have a 5 minute update on the future of the podcast plus a change of role for me. (Don't worry. it's all good stuff!). Have a great weekend! #SlightReliability youtube.com/watch?v=Qu1g1g…

This week on #SlightReliability I had the honour of chatting with Honeycomb.io System Status Updates Field CTO Liz Fong-Jones about the role of developer advocacy in #SRE. #DevRel #DeveloperAdvocacy youtube.com/watch?v=loVZWg…

This week on #SlightReliability I chat with Ankit Jain from Aviator about #DeveloperExperience. ❔ What is developer experience? ⏱️ How do we measure it? 👶 How can we get started? #DevEx #SRE #DevOps #PlatformEngineering youtube.com/watch?v=Jo051L…

This week on #SlightReliability Valeska Victoria is back to share more incident stories! #SRE #DevOps #oncall #incidentmanagement youtube.com/watch?v=X-W7mG…

This week on #SlightReliability I'm joined by the godfather of #SRE himself, Niall Murphy. We cover the current macro-economic state of the world and how we need to adapt, Gen AI in incident management, and much more. #DevOps #Leadership #Tech youtube.com/watch?v=WYLMWS…

What a year it's been for the #SlightReliability podcast. 45 episodes consumed in 67 countries. 30 guests. Over 20k episode listens and views. It's been a privilege to watch the show evolve from a hobby project into a genuine community and something bigger than myself.

On the first #SlightReliability episode of 2024 I talk about #incident management in non-production environments! #sre #devops #observability youtube.com/watch?v=e37V4s…

This week on Slight Reliability Amin Astaneh and I get real about CI/CD: 🔌 The power of the standard change 👀 CI/CD observability 🏭 Single piece flow ☑️ Testing in production ...and much more #DevOps #CICD #SRE #automation #ITIL #SlightReliability youtube.com/watch?v=kYgcYq…