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Today Jason and Julie catch up and reflect on their favorite moments from Season 3, including unpopular opinions, chaos engineering, make or break moments in engineers’ careers, and more. They discuss the unique features of having established e
In this episode, we cover:Mauricio talks about his background and his role at Pismo (1:14)Jason and Mauricio discuss tech and reliability with regards to financial institutions (5:59)Mauricio talks about the work he has done in Chaos Engineerin
In this episode, we cover:Aaron talks about starting out as a developer and the early stages of cloud development at RBC (1:05)Aaron discusses transitioning to developer advocacy (12:25)Aaron identifies successes he had in his early days of dev
Today we chat with Cisco’s head of developer content, community, and events, Michael Chenetz. We discuss everything from KubeCon to kindness and Legos! Michael delves into some of the main themes he heard from creators at KubeCon, and we discus
It’s time to shoot for the stars with Dan Isla, VP of Product at itopia, to talk about everything from astronomical importance of reliability to time zones on Mars. Dan’s trajectory has been a propulsion of jobs bordering on the science fiction
In this episode, we cover:Introduction (00:00)“Embracing Change Fearlessly” (01:45)Fearless change enabling good work (04:00)The culture change that needs to happen (06:10)How to talk to your leaders (10:45)“The Adolescent Version” of engineeri
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Introduction00:00:57 - Rootly, an incident management platform 00:02:20 - Why build Rootly00:06:00 - Unique aspects of Rootly00:09:50 - How people should use Rootly Links Referenced:rootly.com/demo: https://
In this episode, we cover:Introduction (00:00)Elizabeth, AppLand, and AppMap (1:00)Why build AppMap (03:34)Being open-source (06:40)Building community  (08:50)Some tips on using AppMap (11:15)Links Referenced:VS Code Marketplace: https://market
In this episode, we cover:Introduction (00:00)How Chris got into the world of chaos and teaching middle school science (02:11)The Cengage seasonal model and preparing for the (5:56)How Cengage schedules the chaos and the “day of darkness” (11:1
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Intro00:01:56 - How Alex and Kolton know each other and the beginnings of their companies 00:10:10 - The change of mindset from Amazon to the smaller scale00:17:34 - Alex and Kolton’s advice for companies th
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Introduction 00:02:00 - Carissa’s first job in tech and first bootcamp 00:04:30 - Early Lessons: Carissa breaks production—on a Friday!00:08:40 - Carissa’s work at ClickBank and listening to newer hires 00:1
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Intro00:01:45 - AWS Severless Hero and Gunnar’s history using AWS00:04:42 - Severless as reliability00:08:10 - How they are testing the connectivity in serverless00:12:47 - Gunnar shares a suprising result o
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Intro00:02:23 - Iwata is the best, rest in peace00:06:45 - Sam sneaks some SNES emulators/Engineer prep00:08:20 - AWS, incidents, and China00:16:40 - Understanding the big picture and moving from project to
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Intro00:00:38 - Death to VPNs00:02:45 - “I do not like React hooks.”00:03:50 - A Popular (?) OpinionTranscriptPat: Good thing you're putting that on our SRE focused pod.Brian: Yeah, well, they can take that
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Introduction00:30:00 - Fastly Outage00:04:05 - Salesforce Outage00:07:25 - Hypothesizing 00:10:00 - Julie Joins the Team!00:14:05 - Looking Forward/OutroTranscriptJason: There’s a bunch of cruft that they’ll
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Introduction 00:04:30 - Early Dark Days in Chaos Engineering and Reliability00:08:27 - Anecdotes from the “Long Dark Time”00:16:00 - The Big Changes Over the Years00:20:50 - Mandi’s Work at PagerDuty00:27:40
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Introduction 00:05:00 - Itiel’s Background in Engineering00:08:25 - Improving Kubernetes Troubleshooting00:11:45 -  Improving Team Collaboration 00:14:00 - OutroLinks:Komodor: https://komodor.com/Twitter: ht
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Introduction00:02:45 - Adopting the Cloud00:08:15 - POC Process 00:12:40 - Infrastructure Team Building00:17:45 - “Disaster Roleplay”/Communicating to the Non-Technical Side 00:20:20 - Leadership00:22:45 - T
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Introduction00:03:20 - VMWare Tanzu00:07:50 - Gustavo’s Career in Security 00:12:00 - Early Days in Chaos Engineering00:16:30 - Catzilla 00:19:45 - Expanding on SRE00:26:40 - Learning from Customer Trends00:
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Introduction 00:03:30 - An Engineering Anecdote 00:08:10 - Lessons Learned from Putting Out Fires00:11:00 - Building “Guardrails”00:18:10 - Pushing the Chaos Envelope 00:23:35 - OpenGitOps Project00:30:37 -
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Introduction 00:04:25 - Cadence to Temporal 00:09:15 - Breaking down the Technology 00:15:35 - Three Tips for Using Temporal 00:19:21 - OutroLinks:Temporal: https://temporal.ioTranscriptJason: And just so I’
In this episode, we cover:00:00:00 - Introduction 00:03:15 - FinOps Foundation and Multicloud 00:07:00 - Costs 00:10:40 - John’s History in Reliability Engineering 00:16:30 - The Actual Cost of an Outages, Security, Etc.00:21:30 - What John Mea
In this episode, we cover:What Kessel Run is Doing: 00:01:27Failure Never has a Single Point: 00:05:50Lessons Learned: 00:10:50Working the DOD:00:13:40Automation and Tools: 00:18:02Links:Kessel Run: https://kesselrun.af.milKessel Run LinkedIn:
In this episode, we cover:Intro and an Anecdote: 00:00:27Early Days of Chaos Engineering: 00:04:13Moving to the Cloud and Important Lessons: 00:07:22Always Learning and Teaching: 00:11:15Figuring Out Chaos: 00:16:30Advice: 00:20:24Links:Apex: h
Welcome back to another edition of “Build Things on Purpose.” This time Jason is joined by Zack Butcher, a founding engineer at Tetrate. They also break down Istio’s ins and outs and the lessons learned there, the role of open source projects a
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