Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus (Episode 108)
Send us a textWhat is chaos engineering and how is it being used in 2025?This week I'm joined by Gremlin CEO and founder Kolton Andrus to discuss...🌪️ What is chaos engineering and what is its origins?🪴 How has it evolved over the year?🤖 The role of AI agents in SRE work💰 Justifying the value of chaos engineering🏃♀️➡️ How do I get started?...and much more.You can find Kolton on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kolton-andrus-77315a2/And you can find out more about Gremlin's new reliability intelligence platform here: https://www.gremlin.com/technologies/reliability-intelligenceYou can find Stephen on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
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Team Topologies with Luke McManus (Episode 107)
Send us a textWhat are Team Topologies? How can they be used to deliver value simpler and more effectively (and in a more humane way)?This week I'm joined by Luke McManus to discuss...⛰️ What are the four team topologies?🏆 Can we have too much collaboration?⌚ Team interaction models🌏 Cognitive load🏃♀️➡️ Value dynamics mapping...and much more.You can find Luke on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-mcmanus-agile/Check out the recently released second edition of the Team Topologies book by Matthew Skelton and Manual Pais here: https://itrevolution.com/product/team-topologies-second-edition/Or Unbundling the Enterprise by Stephen Fishman and Matt McLarty here: https://itrevolution.com/product/unbundling-the-enterprise/You can find Stephen on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
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Contributing to Open Source with Wendy Ha (Episode 106)
Send us a textHow do you begin contributing to an open source project? What's it like? What do you get out of it?This week I'm joined by Wendy Ha who shares her unique story of joining the Kubernetes project and becoming a contributor. We explore...⛰️ What it's like working on one of the biggest open source projects in the world🏆 The benefits of contributing to open source⌚ How much time and effort does it take?🌏 The unique challenges of contributing from APAC (and the need for more contributors in Australia and New Zealand)🏃♀️➡️ How to get started...and much more.You can find Wendy on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendyha-sut/Ways you can get started contributing to Open Source:CNCF from Zero to Merge Program: https://project.linuxfoundation.org/cncf-zero-to-merge-applicationLFX Mentorship Program: https://mentorship.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/#projects_allOutreachy Mentorship Program: https://www.outreachy.org/mentor/Google Summer of Code: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/Kubernetes Release Team Shadowing: https://github.com/kubernetes/sig-release/blob/master/release-team/README.md#release-team-shadowYou can find Stephen on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
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Influencing Leadership with Nora Jones (Episode 105)
Send us a textAs an #SRE how do you influence senior leadership to get support and priority for the things you care about?To answer this question I'm joined by Nora Jones, founder of Jeli and now Head of Pricing, Product Strategy and Growth at PagerDuty. Our conversation touches on...🤝 How understanding needs to flow both ways (between engineers and leaders)🎨 Reliability is as much an art as a science📝 Using napkin math to start conversations🧠 Understand the system (your org) before trying to change it💬 Using micro-interactions to gradually implement change...and so much more.You can find Nora on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/norajones1/You can find more about PagerDuty here: https://www.pagerduty.com/nlp/trial-sign-up/You can find Stephen on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
Send us a textThis week I do a retrospective on the Slight Reliability podcast.👂 How many people listen to it?❤️ How do I feel about the show?🎉 What's going well?🪴 What could be better?❔ What's next for the show?If you want to check out the podcast that came before Slight Reliability, you can find Performance Time archived on YouTube here:https://www.youtube.com/@performance-timeYou can find Stephen on:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.socialYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliabilityInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/slight_reliability/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@the_kiwi_sre
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