Our beloved teammate Paul Newson is back from his SRE rotation to tell us
about all the lessons that he learned during all these months.
Your co-hosts, Mark and
Francesc, are as always here to ask all
the burning questions.



About Paul

Paul is an SRE Advocate at Google.
As part of Google’s Cloud developer relations team, he helps our customers
understand reliability best practices based on his experiences working as a
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on Google Compute Engine and as a Software
Engineer on Google Cloud Storage.

Before joining Google, he cofounded a tiny game technology startup, sold it
to Microsoft, where he then worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza
Motorsport, before spending some time working on interesting machine learning
problems in Microsoft Research.

Outside of work he enjoys rock climbing, motorcycling, and other activities
that demand complete focus.

He doesn’t often post on social media, but when he does, he does it at
@newsons_nybbles.





Cool thing of the week


Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes Kubernetes blog
CRE Life Lessons blog post series
The SRE book is now free! read it online


Interview

More episodes with Paul Newson:


Storage with Paul Newson episode 14
Site Reliability Engineering episode 38


More links:


The SRE book home page
SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, oh my - CRE life lessons blog post
A Google SRE explores GitHub reliability with BigQuery blog post
Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog post


Question of the week

The question today comes from StackOverflow.

How can I see which version of an App Engine service is the default?


app.services/get docs
Microservices Architecture on Google App Engine docs


Were will we be?

Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he’ll be speaking at
Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco.

Francesc is doing a European tour, after speaking at golab
and GolangBCN he’s
currently in Paris and on his way to the Go Devroom at FOSDEM.
A bit later he’ll also be at Gophercon India.