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IT Ops QueryDancing with AI: AI risks, rewards and the evolution of SREsExperienced IT practitioners offer their predictions for how AI will change observability, the role of the site reliability engineer and incident management within enterprise organizations, from best-case scenarios to pitfalls and risks. Come for the 40 combined years of IT ops expertise, stay for the "Highlander" references and football analogies.
Featuring: Jonathan Moore, domain architect, Progressive Insurance and Laura Vetter, chief technologist and co-founder, Evolutio
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
AI risks
AI agents
Site Reliability Engineering
and more!
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AI and the Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace, Business, Ethics, HR, and IT for AI Enthusiasts, Leaders and Academics333: How AI Is Transforming On-Call Life — The Future of SREs and IT Ops with Gou Rao, Co-Founder of NeuBird.aiGou Rao is a serial entrepreneur and the co-founder of NeuBird, where he's building Hawkeye—an AI-powered site reliability engineer designed to identify, diagnose, and resolve IT infrastructure issues. He previously co-founded Portworx, which was acquired by Pure Storage for $370 million in 2020. In 2024, NeuBird raised a $22.5 million seed extension from M12, Microsoft’s venture arm, following a $22 million seed round led by Mayfield, Stepstone Group, and Prosperity7 Ventures. Gou holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering from Bangalore University and a master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.In this conversation, we discuss:Gou Ra...2025-04-2840 min
Mondays with Mike & MaryEpisode 374: How to Capitalize on My SRES DesignationParade of Techniques:
1. How I turned a $4800 cosmetic upgrade into a $70,000 price bump
2. Why you should never quit on a bad day
Ask The Experts:
1. My #1 goal is to insulate and educate my sellers from predatory wholesalers flooding my market
2. My #1 goal is to capitalize on my SRES designation2025-03-2413 min
Reliability Enablers#63 - Does "Big Observability" Neglect Mobile?Andrew Tunall is a product engineering leader focused on pushing the boundaries of reliability with a current focus on mobile observability. Using his experience from AWS and New Relic, he’s vocal about the need for a more user-focused observability, especially in mobile, where traditional practices fall short. * Career Journey and Current Role: Andrew Tunall, now at Embrace, a mobile observability startup in Portland, Oregon, started his journey at AWS before moving to New Relic. He shifted to a smaller, Series B company to learn beyond what corporate America offered.* Specialization in Mobile Ob...2024-11-1229 min
Cloud DialoguesThe Art and Science of Site Reliability Engineering with Liz Fong-JonesIn this exciting episode of Cloud Dialogues, we are joined by Liz Fong-Jones, Field CTO at Honeycomb and former Google SRE, to explore the fascinating world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)—a game-changer for scaling and automating large systems.
What We Covered:
1. Meet Liz Fong-Jones: Liz brings over a decade of SRE experience from her time at Google and Honeycomb, helping companies revolutionize how they manage reliability and automation.
2. The Origin Story: SRE actually predates the cloud! Born at Google in the early 2000s, SRE started as a way to automate manual system ad...2024-10-1033 min
Reliability Enablers#59 Who handles monitoring in your team and how?Why many copy Google’s monitoring team setup* Google’s Influence. Google played a key role in defining the concept of software reliability.* Success in Reliability. Few can dispute Google’s ability to ensure high levels of reliability and its ability to share useful ways to improve it in other settingsBUT there’s a problem:* It’s not always replicable. While Google's practices are admired, they may not be a perfect fit for every team.What is Google’s monitoring approach within teams?Here’s the thing th...2024-09-2408 min
Futurum Tech WebcastIntersection of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SREs | DevOps Dialogues: Insights & InnovationsOn this episode of DevOps Dialogues: Insights & Innovations, I am joined by CTO Advisor and Signal65 Analyst, Alastair Cooke, for a discussion on the Intersection of DevOps, Platform Engineering, and SREs Our conversations cover: DevOps for Continuous Evolution Platform Engineering Orchestrating Infrastructure for Innovation Site Reliability Engineers Are Bridging the Gap The Importance of Each Practice Area These topics reflect ongoing discussions, challenges, and innovations within the DevOps community. 2024-06-0325 min
DEM tech folks014: Interview with Samuel Tillman the SRESamuel Tillman shares his journey from a troubled youth to becoming a successful SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) with the NBA. He discusses his early life, military experience, and how he got interested in technology. Samuel talks about his transition to civilian life and the challenges he faced in finding IT jobs. He also highlights the importance of diversity in the workplace and how the NBA embraces it. Finally, he shares his transition to DevOps and SRE roles and emphasizes the value of self-study and continuous learning in the tech industry. In this part of the conversation, the speakers discuss the...2024-05-161h 03
Caring in AmericaEp 50, Senior Real Estate Specialist, A Conversation with Bryan Devore, Caring in America What is a Senior Real Estate Specialist? SRESLearn about serving Seniors and their families when transacting Real Estate.Learn about providing the information as to the next steps for the Senior.Learn how living in a your home can be overwhelming as you age..Learn about all the Resources that are needed, when you think about selling your home.Should a Senior move to Senior Living with the proceeds from the home?A SRES vs. a Realtor? The differentiator is understanding at a...2024-05-0127 min
PurePerformanceSREs must not be your SWAT Teams with Dana HarrisonSREs (Site Reliability Engineers) have varying roles across different organizations: From Codifying your Infrastructure, handling high priority incidents, automating resiliency, ensuring proper observability, defining SLOs or getting rid of alert fatigue. What an SRE team must not be is a SWAT team - or - as Dana Harrison, Staff SRE at Telus puts it: "You don't want to be the fire brigade along the DevOps Infinity Loop"In his years of experience as an SRE Dana also used to run 1 week boot camps for developers to educate them on making apps observable, proper logging, resiliency architecture patterns, defining good SL...2024-04-081h 01
Incidentally Reliable Podcast#6 - Piyush Verma - The Show Must Go OnCatch Piyush Verma, Co-Founder and CTO at Last9 in conversation with Ankur Rawal, Co-Founder and CTO at Zenduty — discussing what reliability means to the modern consumer, why SREs make excellent decision-makers, and the current state of observability.Exclusively on The Incidentally Reliable podcast — made by SREs for SREs, hosted by Zenduty.2024-02-091h 02
The New Stack PodcastHow Platform Engineering Supports SREIn this New Stack Makers podcast, Martin Parker, a solutions architect for UST, spoke with TNS editor-in-chief, Heather Joslyn and discussed the significance of internal developer platforms (IDPs), emphasizing benefits beyond frontend developers to backend engineers and site reliability engineers (SREs). Parker highlighted the role of IDPs in automating repetitive tasks, allowing SREs to focus on optimizing application performance. Standardization is key, ensuring observability and monitoring solutions align with best practices and cater to SRE needs. By providing standardized service level indicators (SLIs) and key performance indicators (KPIs), IDPs enable SREs to maintain reliability efficiently. Parker stresses t...2024-02-0718 min
Reliability Enablers#10 Using AI for Kubernetes troubleshooting self-service (with Kyle Forster)Ash Patel interviews Kyle Forster of RunWhen about his experiences as an ex-Google director helping SREs and running an AI-based company that supports Kubernetes troubleshooting. Their conversation will cover themes like enabling junior SREs, the role of SRE in shift-left, and handling misaligned incentive models in organizations. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit read.srepath.com2023-10-1024 min
Site Reliability Engineering AudiobookChapter 28 - Accelerating SREs to On-Call and BeyondThe Google's SRE book: Chapter 28 - Accelerating SREs to On-Call and Beyond
https://sre.google/sre-book/accelerating-sre-on-call/2023-08-2942 min
Aging MattersReal Estate Decisions w/ Cathi Coridan, Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES) 8/8/23Conversation w/ Cathi Coridan, SRES and Certified Professional Coach, about post-pandemic real estate market changes, future relocation outlook, and how an SRES can help older adults make life changing decisions. 2023-08-0853 min
Reliability Enablers#6 Building a successful SRE practice through capabilitiesWe discuss the need for a framework to guide the development of Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and drive value for organizations. You will learn about our pillar view of areas like observability and service management, to identify areas for improvement and emphasize the importance of focusing on a few key areas at a time. We also discuss the challenges of hiring experienced SRE practitioners and suggest developing existing employees' skills and capabilities to become effective SREs. A capability view of SRE work can help establish a clear career path for SREs within an organization while aligning with acute organizational...2023-06-2915 min
Reliability Enablers#5 Where does SRE fit into your organization's structure?We discuss throughout this episode the different engagement models for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and how to contextualize SRE into an organization's structure. Sebastian Vietz, an experienced SRE practitioner, suggests five different engagement models for SRE and emphasizes the importance of considering the cost associated with each model. The hosts also discuss the different types of SREs that can exist within these engagement models, including SRE champions and unicorns. They stress the importance of considering organizational context when implementing SRE and tease a future episode where they will delve deeper into a framework for identifying the capabilities needed to...2023-06-1517 min
Free EA FOREXCrack EA All In One SRES Channel for MT4All In One SRES Channel by Libertas LLC Download at https://bit.ly/m/robotforex Automate your charting with the All-In-One SRES channel indicator. This is a complete package designed to address 3 questions: (1) when to enter a trade, (2) what is a good exit point, and (3) what is the probabilistic likelihood of success of the trade. Longevity and Flexibility : The All-In-One SRES calculates and charts S upport, R esistance, E xpected range, and a S queeze channel, and is enormously flexible for many trading strategies. Each option is customizable to fit your strategy, and c ...2023-05-0900 min
Pocket HoursEpisode 25: Relationships, Champions, & Systems for SuccessJennifer Nelson, Scout Real Estate Founder, welcomes Renee Bornfreund who is a Broker, Investor, and Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES). Renee and Jennifer discuss the importance of relationships and finding your champions. And Renee shares how her background in the corporate arena gave her skills that are directly transferable to the industry of real estate. Renee explains that in her corporate job, she was a consultant, trainer, and project manager. All of these roles and the skills that went with them are the same skills she uses as a successful agent and SRES now. She also gives...2023-04-1832 min
Hacking the OrgJennifer Mace on How Google Does SRE Charles Humble talks to Jennifer Mace, aka as Macey. She gives us her definitions of "site reliability engineer" and “toil”, discusses how google recruits SREs, explores how to manage risk and speed, and the pros and cons of having a centralised SRE function and why that model, vs. the “You build it, you run it” model preferred by Netflix, works well at Google. She also offers advice for junior SREs and tells us what it is like when the pager goes off.2023-03-3134 min
ShipTalk - SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Software DeliveryShipTalk - A "Civ tech tree" for SREs, the M-word, and a new unit of measure called "Micro-Jacksons" - Steve McGhee - DevRel at GoogleIn this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Steve McGhee shares tells us about a new open-source project that helps SREs understand which capabilities are required to achieve increasing levels of reliability (the nines). He also shares some interesting stories about misadventures with user files and how Google handled the news that Michael Jackson had passed away.IntroductionsJust for fun #1 - Steve's activities outside of workMain topic - r9y.dev, what it is, how to use it, how to contributeJust for fun #2 - Steve's worst IT mess-ups and creating a...2023-03-2820 min
Real Property St PeteEpisode 15 - Julie turns 50: Tips for Seniors Thinking about MovingDavid Vann is a Seniors Real Estate Specialist (SRES) and today, he's talking with Jill Hart, who is also an SRES, focusing on helping seniors understand their options when it comes to housing and real estate. We discuss downsizing, right-sizing, and how to find the perfect place (or places!) as you age and your needs change. You can find Jill at https://silverpathwayshome.com/. Want to work with us? David Vann can be found here, and Julie Jones can be found here! Reach out! We're nice, and we'd love to hear from you! 2023-03-2415 min
The Senior Podcast ShowThe Senior Podcast Show Season 2 Premiere!The Senior Podcast Show is back for Season 2!
This Episode of The Senior Podcast Show focuses on Senior Real Estate. Kori Lehr is joined by special guests Traci Stolle & James Feaheny, Owners of Brookview Realty and Senior Realty Experts!
With fluctuating interest rates and higher housing prices the current Real Estate Market has those who are looking to either buy or sell asking a lot of questions. This can be especially true for those who have passed retirement age and are looking to sell the home they have lived in for the past 20+ years. Buying...2023-03-0734 min
Sage AgingUsing a Senior Real Estate SpecialistAbout This Episode Transitioning from the family home to senior living can be a daunting task for older adults and their families. The process of downsizing, selling the family home, and finding the right senior living community can be overwhelming. However, using a senior real estate specialist (SRES) can make the transition easier. SRESs have expertise in assisting older clients with their unique needs and concerns. They can provide guidance and support throughout the entire process, helping older adults and their families navigate the complex real estate market and find the right living situation to fit their...2023-03-0729 min
Get With ITPlatform engineers vs. SREs - Episode 8In this podcast episode, ITOps Times Editor-in-Chief David Rubinstein had a conversation about the differences between platform engineers, SREs, vs. DevOps pros. His guest was Luca Galante from the product team at Humanitec.2023-03-0318 min