Life of An SRE Episode 1: Tom Cranitch and Megan Yin

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Life of An SRE Episode 1: Tom Cranitch and Megan Yin

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27 minutes

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Sep 12, 2023

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How does one become an SRE? And what’s the career like? In this episode, Tom and Megan discuss their path to SRE.

Released:

Sep 12, 2023

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Podcast episode

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SRE Prodcast brings Google's experience with Site Reliability Engineering together with special guests and exciting topics to discuss the present and future of reliable production engineering!

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Client-Transparent Migrations with Pavan Adharapurapu: Pavan Adharapurapu details how to approach large-scale migrations while optimizing for user experience. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
40 min listen
Automation with Pierre Palatin: Pierre Palatin dives into different automation strategies, how to build confidence in your system, and why designing the UI may be your biggest challenge. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
60 min listen
SRE Philosophy with Jennifer Mace (Macey): What is SRE, anyway? Jennifer Mace (Macey) gives us her definition of "site reliability engineer," discusses how to manage risk, and shares key questions to ask developers. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
33 min listen
Customer-Centric Monitoring with Silvia Esparrachiari: Silvia Esparrachiari talks about the challenges of monitoring and the importance of understanding your users. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
31 min listen
Alerting with Amelia Harrison: Amelia Harrison advises on when and how to alert, ideal coverage, and tuning. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
27 min listen
Rethinking SLOs with Narayan Desai: Narayan Desai explains why SLOs can be problematic and proposes alternative methods for monitoring complex, large-scale systems. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
25 min listen
On-Call Rotations with Andrew Widdowson (APW): Andrew Widdowson (APW) shares strategies for successful on-call rotations. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
44 min listen
Incident Management with Adrienne Walcer: Adrienne Walcer discusses how to approach and organize incident management efforts throughout the production lifecycle. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
40 min listen
Life of An SRE Episode 1: Tom Cranitch and Megan Yin: How does one become an SRE? And what’s the career like? In this episode, Tom and Megan discuss their path to SRE. by Google SRE Prodcast
27 min listen
Creating the SRE Prodcast with John Reese (JTR): Host MP English and former Google SRE John Reese (JTR) chat about the creation of the Prodcast. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
11 min listen
Postmortems with Ayelet Sachto: Ayelet Sachto offers advice on creating an actionable, transparent, and blameless postmortem culture. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
29 min listen
Life of an SRE with Stephen Benjamin: Explore the role and responsibilities of an SRE manager with Stephen Benjamin. by Google SRE Prodcast
32 min listen
Life of An SRE with Theo Pikle: Explore the career path of SRE Theo Pikle as he discusses his paths to Site Reliability Engineering and finding his area of expertise. by Google SRE Prodcast
44 min listen
Life of An SRE with Mariuxi Vasconez and Julian Alarcon: In this episode, Mariuxi and Julian discuss their paths to SRE: what drew them initially to SRE, and what motivates them to continue developing skills by Google SRE Prodcast
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Life of An SRE with Sabrina Farmer: Sabrina Farmer, VP of Engineering at Google, talks about her career journey through Site Reliability Engineering. What does management mean? What’s involved in being an effective manager? and what’s a feasibility study? Hear some great... by Google SRE Prodcast
51 min listen
Life of An SRE with Jessica Theodat: Explore the role and responsibilities of a Senior SRE with Jessica Theodat, as she discusses life-work balance, the value of mentoring, and being a Black woman in SRE. by Google SRE Prodcast
26 min listen
Life of An SRE with Dave Reisner: Dave Reisner talks about his path to Staff SRE, from ArchLinux contributor through DevOps to software engineer. This episode emphasizes the value of strong mentoring and manager relationships, and the challenges of work-life balance. by Google SRE Prodcast
30 min listen
Life of An SRE: Life after Google SRE, with Carla Geisser, Cody Smith, and Laura Nolan: Former Google SREs, or "Xooglers", talk with hosts MP and Steve McGhee about site reliability engineering outside of Google. What’s the difference in scale? What skills are generally valuable? And why can’t you build “SRE in a box” that... by Google SRE Prodcast
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Life of An SRE: Life after Google SRE, with Carla Geisser, Cody Smith, and Laura Nolan: Former Google SREs, or "Xooglers", talk with hosts MP and Steve McGhee about site reliability engineering outside of Google. What’s the difference in scale? What skills are generally valuable? And why can’t you build “SRE in a box” that... by Google SRE Prodcast
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Life of An SRE with Sabrina Farmer: Sabrina Farmer, VP of Engineering at Google, talks about her career journey through Site Reliability Engineering. What does management mean? What’s involved in being an effective manager? and what’s a feasibility study? Hear some great... by Google SRE Prodcast
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Life of An SRE with Dave Reisner: Dave Reisner talks about his path to Staff SRE, from ArchLinux contributor through DevOps to software engineer. This episode emphasizes the value of strong mentoring and manager relationships, and the challenges of work-life balance. by Google SRE Prodcast
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Life of an SRE with Stephen Benjamin: Explore the role and responsibilities of an SRE manager with Stephen Benjamin. by Google SRE Prodcast
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Life of An SRE with Jessica Theodat: Explore the role and responsibilities of a Senior SRE with Jessica Theodat, as she discusses life-work balance, the value of mentoring, and being a Black woman in SRE. by Google SRE Prodcast
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Life of An SRE with Theo Pikle: Explore the career path of SRE Theo Pikle as he discusses his paths to Site Reliability Engineering and finding his area of expertise. by Google SRE Prodcast
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Life of An SRE with Mariuxi Vasconez and Julian Alarcon: In this episode, Mariuxi and Julian discuss their paths to SRE: what drew them initially to SRE, and what motivates them to continue developing skills by Google SRE Prodcast
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Creating the SRE Prodcast with John Reese (JTR): Host MP English and former Google SRE John Reese (JTR) chat about the creation of the Prodcast. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
11 min listen
Postmortems with Ayelet Sachto: Ayelet Sachto offers advice on creating an actionable, transparent, and blameless postmortem culture. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
29 min listen
Incident Management with Adrienne Walcer: Adrienne Walcer discusses how to approach and organize incident management efforts throughout the production lifecycle. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
40 min listen
On-Call Rotations with Andrew Widdowson (APW): Andrew Widdowson (APW) shares strategies for successful on-call rotations. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
44 min listen
Automation with Pierre Palatin: Pierre Palatin dives into different automation strategies, how to build confidence in your system, and why designing the UI may be your biggest challenge. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
60 min listen
Client-Transparent Migrations with Pavan Adharapurapu: Pavan Adharapurapu details how to approach large-scale migrations while optimizing for user experience. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
40 min listen
Rethinking SLOs with Narayan Desai: Narayan Desai explains why SLOs can be problematic and proposes alternative methods for monitoring complex, large-scale systems. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
25 min listen
Alerting with Amelia Harrison: Amelia Harrison advises on when and how to alert, ideal coverage, and tuning. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
27 min listen
Customer-Centric Monitoring with Silvia Esparrachiari: Silvia Esparrachiari talks about the challenges of monitoring and the importance of understanding your users. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
31 min listen
SRE Philosophy with Jennifer Mace (Macey): What is SRE, anyway? Jennifer Mace (Macey) gives us her definition of "site reliability engineer," discusses how to manage risk, and shares key questions to ask developers. Visit for transcripts and links to further reading. by Google SRE Prodcast
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