Shows
Google SRE ProdcastBuilding Reliable Systems with Silvia Botros and Niall MurphySilvia 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!2024-10-0242 min
Changelog Master FeedMySQL performance (Ship It! #118)Silvia Botros joins Justin & Autumn for a phenomenal conversation about databases, her career path & the ins/outs of writing High Performance MySQL.
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Screaming in the Cloud11 Job Titles in 8 Years at 1 Company with Sean KilgoreAbout SeanSean Kilgore is an Architect at Twilio, where he draws boxes, lighthouses and soapboxes. In Sean’s spare time, he enjoys reading, walking, gaming, and a well-made drink.Links:Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/Silvia Botros's Twitter: https://twitter.com/dbsmasherSean's Twitter: https://twitter.com/log1kal2021-07-2734 min
Career Chats with Swyx and RandallStaff Engineering (ft. Will Larson, CTO of Calm)What happens after you go past Senior? Will Larson, CTO of Calm, has been interviewing Staff-plus engineers across the industry for his new book, Staff Engineering. This is our first full-length interview podcast episode! If you enjoyed it, please help us share with a friend and let us know your feedback! (Links at bottom)----1:00 Why research Staff Engineering?Most bigcos make up their ladders as they go along, or cargo cult from FB/Google.We have to separate management from leadership.4:31 Who are Will's role models?Lara Hogan - t...2020-12-0241 min
On-Call Nightmares PodcastEpisode 44 - Silvia Botros - Twilio<img src="https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/7e/ff/df/jaydestro73507/3000x3000_14460927.jpg" alt="itunes pic" /><br />This week I chat with Silvia Botros also known as the @dbsmasher from Twitter. I learn about her experiences on-call for databases, motherhood and an affinity for breaking things. An awesome conversation with an incredible person.
Silvia Botros is a Sr Principal Engineer at Twilio. She focuses on ways to break databases but is also talented at finding bugs in all your software. Whether she helped build it or not. When she is not helping...2019-11-2134 min
The Fat Pipe Of The Packet Pushers PodcastsDatanauts 166: Can You Hire ‘DevOps’?I hear about companies that create net new DevOps roles and hire “DevOps Engineers” to fill them.
And then those DevOps people fail in their roles, because no one wants to deal with the additional processes they tend to create.
I’ve wondered if hiring specific DevOps roles is doing it wrong. Is a transformative approach a better idea?
That is, take the people you’ve got and retrain, retool, and reorganize. Foster a different culture that’s DevOps-ian in nature. Then, you might be successful.
Am I right? We explore this idea of hiring DevOps on the D...2019-06-051h 06
Arrested DevOpsPrincipal Engineering With Silvia Botros
On being a principal engineer - blog post by Silvia
Silvia’s talks
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Checkouts
Silvia: the Beyoncé movie came out on Netflix: Homecoming
Jessica: Do something outside! It’s spring!
Matty: Stocksy - for affordable stock imagery that benefits the artists and Super Team Delu...2019-04-2151 min
Authority IssuesEpisode 21: Silvia Botros (Twilio-Sendgrid)In this episode, rachel, Kendall, and Silvia talk about:
How nobody ever reads documentation beforehand
The sad state of education
What terrible handwriting might offer us in terms of improving our communication habits
rachel's inability to remember the term "career ladder"
The importance of identifying and codifying hierarchies as your flat org begins to grow
Discovering the Individual Contributor leadership track
What leadership means for the Principal Engineer and how this varies at scale
The value of providing historical context for your colleagues
Dudes on Twitter, an eternal plague etc
Becoming comfortable about delegation as a method of...2019-03-1444 min
The Tech Lead Coaching Podcast from Michael RiceNo. 4 - On Being a Principal EngineerIn our fourth podcast, we review a wonderful post from Silvia Botros: On Being a Principal Engineer. Silvia has a lot of great insights for those interested in furthering their tech leadership, and we pull out the tidbits that we think the Tech Lead Coaching Network community will find interesting.
Link: https://blog.dbsmasher.com/2019/01/28/on-being-a-principal-engineer.html
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0:05 - Intro 👋
0:14 - About the Tech Lead Coaching Network
1:35 - How to get involved (DO IT DO IT DO IT)
2:03 - The Main Eve...2019-02-2107 min
Real World DevOpsEpisode #001 - Databases and DevOps with Silvia BotrosAbout the GuestSilvia is a Principal Engineer at SendGrid, a cloud email provider with household name clients like eBay, Spotify, Pandora and Airbnb. She is an avid distributed systems and databases tester and spends a lot of her day trolling her Ops team. You can hear more from Silvia on her blog https://blog.dbsmasher.com and on Twitter at @dbsmasherKey TakeawaysInvolve your DBAs in the engineering process early on to prevent problems in the future.Enabling engineering teams to manage their own schema is critical to...2019-01-0145 min