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SRE III with Steve McGhee and Yuri Grinshteyn
SRE III with Steve McGhee and Yuri Grinshteyn
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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Jun 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Our old pal Mark Mirchandani is back this week, joining Stephanie Wong and our guests Steve McGhee and Yuri Grinshteyn to talk about Site Reliability Engineering. SRE is Google’s way of helping companies of all sizes create consistent, predictable, and functional projects. It helps clients approach operations from a software engineering stand point so that growing systems can be managed efficiently.
We talk about the challenges of implementing best SRE practices and how companies can overcome these. Though the benefits of SRE are many, it can be difficult for clients to grasp. Steve and Yuri tell us the process they go through with customers to help them set realistic goals and work to make reliable, scalable projects with little downtime. By starting small and taking wins early, Steve says clients reap the rewards of SRE and are encouraged to push forward. Yuri’s customer-centric approach encourages companies to prioritize alerts that affect the user experience, thus limiting inbox mayhem and keeping customers happy. Alerts based on symptoms, Steve says, help accomplish this goal.
Later, Yuri and Steve describe the best ways for companies to get started with SRE. Realistic goals and specific detailed plans can make the journey less bumpy for clients, and Google’s SRE team can help.
Steve McGhee
Steve was an SRE at Google for about 10 years, then left to help a company build reliable systems on the Cloud. Now he’s back at Google, helping more companies do that.
Yuri Grinshteyn
Yuri works with Google Cloud Platform customers to help them design, architect, build, and operate reliable applications and services. He also advocates for SRE principles and practices on YouTube and elsewhere.
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Interview
Site Reliability Engineering site
Reliability Architecture Framework site
Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability on Coursera site
Developing a Google SRE Culture on Coursera site
How Lowe’s meets customer demand with Google SRE practices blog
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What’s something cool you’re working on?
Yuri has been working on Engineering for Reliability.
Stephanie has been working on her new series What’s New in Networking.
We talk about the challenges of implementing best SRE practices and how companies can overcome these. Though the benefits of SRE are many, it can be difficult for clients to grasp. Steve and Yuri tell us the process they go through with customers to help them set realistic goals and work to make reliable, scalable projects with little downtime. By starting small and taking wins early, Steve says clients reap the rewards of SRE and are encouraged to push forward. Yuri’s customer-centric approach encourages companies to prioritize alerts that affect the user experience, thus limiting inbox mayhem and keeping customers happy. Alerts based on symptoms, Steve says, help accomplish this goal.
Later, Yuri and Steve describe the best ways for companies to get started with SRE. Realistic goals and specific detailed plans can make the journey less bumpy for clients, and Google’s SRE team can help.
Steve McGhee
Steve was an SRE at Google for about 10 years, then left to help a company build reliable systems on the Cloud. Now he’s back at Google, helping more companies do that.
Yuri Grinshteyn
Yuri works with Google Cloud Platform customers to help them design, architect, build, and operate reliable applications and services. He also advocates for SRE principles and practices on YouTube and elsewhere.
Cool things of the week
Fresh updates: Google Cloud 2021 Summits blog
Why you need to explain machine learning models blog
GCP Podcast Episode 260: Responsible AI with Craig Wiley and Tracy Frey podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 249: ML Lifecycle with Dale Markowitz and Craig Wiley podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 214: AI in Healthcare with Dale Markowitz podcast
Interview
Site Reliability Engineering site
Reliability Architecture Framework site
Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability on Coursera site
Developing a Google SRE Culture on Coursera site
How Lowe’s meets customer demand with Google SRE practices blog
GCP Podcast Episode 68: The Home Depot with William Bonnell podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 213: The Art of SLOs with Alex Bramley podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 127: SRE vs Devops with Liz Fong-Jones and Seth Vargo podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 72: Customer Reliability Engineering with Luke Stone podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 38: Site Reliability Engineering with Paul Newson podcast
GCP Podcast Episode 59: SRE II with Paul Newson podcast
What’s something cool you’re working on?
Yuri has been working on Engineering for Reliability.
Stephanie has been working on her new series What’s New in Networking.
Released:
Jun 23, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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