Best Slightly Evolved Podcasts (2024)

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Slight Reliability Episode 86 - Evolving SLOs with Dom Finn 25:57

1M ago25:57

25:57

In the world of SRE we constantly talk about defining SLOs, but what about evolving them over time? This week I chat with SRE Tech Lead Dom Finn about just that. We cover the relationship between reliability and user analytics, latency classes as a way to speak SLOs with business stakeholders, the role of NFRs and how the thresholds differ from SLO…

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Slight Reliability Episode 85 - Feeling SaaSsy 11:08

3M ago11:08

11:08

This week I talk about the impact of SaaS-first technology strategies on the work of an SRE. I pose questions about observability, ownership, on-call, and how much control we have over reliability. You can find the Bleeding Tech blog on Medium: https://medium.com/@stownshend You can find Stephen at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentown…

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Slight Reliability Episode 84 - Clinical Troubleshooting with Dan Slimmon 27:40

4M ago27:40

27:40

This week I chat with Dan Slimmon about applying the approach doctors use to treat patient symptoms during incident response. You can find Dan's blog at https://blog.danslimmon.com/ or connect with him on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danslimmon/ You can find the official Slight Reliability podcast website at: https://slightreliability…

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A Mom Group Chat: Limits in Motherhood for New Moms, Moms of Multiples, and Blended Families 59:49

4M ago59:49

59:49

Join our mom group chat to hear from 4 different motherhood seasons and experiences. We invited two moms joining us to talk through limits in motherhood (and life in general) and how it can create mom guilt, how we overcome feeling like hitting limits is our fault (spoiler, it's not) and for a few of these moms, how being social media influencers i…

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Motherhood in your Thirties, What Our 20’s Taught Us 21:48

4M ago21:48

21:48

Join us as we each share 5 things we learned from our 20’s and will carry into our 30’s. We talk about what it looked like to spend our 20’s in motherhood and what we wish we knew sooner. As Tianna enters her 30’s this week, it’s a perfect time to recall all the things life has taught us so far. Happy birthday Tianna and we’re looking forward to en…

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Failing to record a podcast 48:06

4M ago48:06

48:06

It was so nice to record a new episode for you! in this episode we touch on what has been keeping us in and out of the studio lately, and why there's been a lengthy break between podcast episodes! ind Julie here: www.juliebattisti.com , @juliebattisti & Julie’s newsletter Find Phoebe here: www.phoebegander.com , @phoebeganderart & Phoebe’s newslett…

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Slight Reliability Episode 83 - An Unfulfilled Promise with Itiel Shwartz 30:32

5M ago30:32

30:32

This week I hear about all things Kubernetes from Komodor CTO and co-founder Itiel Shwartz. We chat about the promise that was made when Kubernetes first entered the industry, the challenge of getting developers engaged and capable of working in Kubernetes, my hate/hate relationship with Helm but its important contribution to the Kubernetes project…

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Corporate Mama Finding Freedom in the Online Business World as a Virtual Assistant, Online Business Manager and More 50:58

5M ago50:58

50:58

Join Ariel + Tianna as we sit down with Kristi to talk about what working from home looks like for her, how the Virtual Assistant world got her there and her journey along the way. Kristi came from a comfy corporate job and decided during her pregnancy that she needed a change. She stumbled on Laptop + Littles and the lightbulb went off. She knew t…

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Slight Reliability Episode 82 - CI/CD with Amin Astaneh 25:47

5M ago25:47

25:47

This week I sit down and have a discussion with Amin Astaneh (from Certo Modo) about CI/CD. We cover the power of the standard change as a way to navigate ITIL while still implementing DevOps practices, what to monitor to make your CI/CD observable, single piece flow, testing in production, and so much more. You can find Amin on his company website…

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What We Wish We Knew When We Got Married - Highschool Sweethearts, Marriage Advice 52:33

5M ago52:33

52:33

Join Ariel and Zarod as we sit down to share OTHER people's marriage advice and our thoughts on how well it's worked for us and what we wish we actually knew when we got married at 21 after being highschool sweethearts. Our marriage isn't perfect, no one's is but you can definitely learn from everyone's marriage and we hope you can learn something …

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Slight Reliability Episode 81 - Incident Management in Non-Prod Environments 10:09

6M ago10:09

10:09

"Environment issues are just incidents that happened to occur in a non-production environment"... so why do we treat them so differently? In this first episode of the 2024 season I reflect on how we handle incidents in non-prod environments. (Note: Had a few issues with noise suppression in OBS Studio cutting off the start of some words, will sort …

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Mom Hacks for a Chaotic Motherhood 38:58

6M ago38:58

38:58

Join us for what we expected to be an episode sharing some of the hacks we use to make our life easier, which we do, but we also share about how we struggle with anxiety in our motherhood, rage cleaning, reactive parenting and managing a large family. Hopefully in this episode, you can find something to encourage you in your motherhood, something t…

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Tianna and Austin: Blending Families, New Babies, Co-Parenting 58:11

6M ago58:11

58:11

Ever wondered how a couple decides it's time for a vasectomy? Join Austin and Tianna as they openly discuss the decision-making process. From the early days of their relationship to now, discover how they've both evolved and grown since they first met and learned surprising details about each other along the way. 2023 brought its highs for sure, an…

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New Year New Season: Catch Up, Postpartum Check-In, Breastfeeding, Homeschooling, More Mom Life Chaos 48:29

7M ago48:29

48:29

Welcome to 2024 and season 6 of Call Us Mommy, we're catching you up in this newest episode, sharing our current favorite things, what's new in our lives and filling you in on where we last left you. We're covering everything from how homeschooling is going, Tianna's 6 week postpartum check-up, getting labs done after having a baby, struggling with…

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Reflecting Back On The Year 45:11

7M ago45:11

45:11

In this episode we reflect back on 2023 and chat about the biggest things that we’ve learnt through all the ups and downs. Thanks for sticking with us this year! we’re not entirely sure how our Christmas/New Year scheduling will go, but we’ll get you the next episode as oon as we can! xx JB & PG Find Julie here: www.juliebattisti.com , @juliebattis…

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Perceptions Around Instagram 57:59

7M ago57:59

57:59

This week we are chatting about perceptions. Phoebe recently reached a milestone and tipped over 100,000 Instagram followers, so we chat about how this came about after a long time little growth. We discuss how this number is a bit like being ‘rich in Monopoly’ and doesn’t mean instant sales or success. We delve into how it is impossible to predict…

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Failing Forward - Learning To Pause Before You Start 49:46

7M ago49:46

49:46

This week we are chatting about how we reboot or start new artworks and art projects. We discuss the ways that we have failed at this in the past, by jumping in too quickly and not fully allowing ideas to develop, and how we both want to get better at pausing before rushing ahead. When thinking about planning, it’s no surprise that Julie is more of…

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Exhibition debrief & general catch up 42:10

8M ago42:10

42:10

It’s been a minute since we sat down to record, and we just about forgot how to do it! This episode sees us catching up with the big life events that have been the reason for our absence. Phoebe’s trip to the UK and Julie’s visit back to Australia for her solo exhibition. We chat about the highs and lows of the past couple of months, barely scratch…

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Slight Reliability Episode 80 - What's Been Bugging Niall Murphy 36:45

8M ago36:45

36:45

This week I speak with co-author of the original SRE book + the SRE workbook, and renowned speaker Niall Murphy. We chat about the state of SRE in the current macro-economic climate and how we're not yet doing a very good job at articulating the value of SRE to leaders, the relationship that velocity and reliability have, the value of new features …

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Slight Reliability Episode 76 - Sampling Distributed Traces with Paige Cruz 45:27

8M ago45:27

45:27

Paige Cruz (from Chronosphere) is back. This week we discuss sampling. What is sampling? Why do it? What kinds of sampling are there? You can check out Chronosphere's cloud native observability platform here: https://chronosphere.io/ You can find Paige on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paigerduty/ X: https://twitter.com/paigerduty You can f…

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Slight Reliability Episode 79 - Incident Story Time with Valeska Victoria 37:51

8M ago37:51

37:51

This week Valeska Victoria returns to share some of her experiences working as an SRE at eBay. We look at the cascading effect of production issues in complex integrated environments (how there's often no single root cause), developer literacy of how infrastructure works, the importance of ownership and accountability of reliability, and much more.…

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Slight Reliability Episode 78 - Developer Experience with Ankit Jain 32:21

8M ago32:21

32:21

This week I chat with Ankit Jain from aviator.co about developer experience. We define developer experience and developer productivity, and how this applies to SRE. We discuss the growing expectation on developers and how this leads to frustration and burnout. We also explore how to measure developer experience and how to start working to make impr…

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December 2023 Update 5:07

8M ago5:07

5:07

A brief mid-week update on my changing circumstances and the future of the podcast.By Stephen Townshend

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Slight Reliability Episode 77 - SRE to DevRel with Liz Fong-Jones 31:53

8M ago31:53

31:53

This week I had the privilege of interviewing Liz Fong-Jones from honeycomb.io about DevRel, Developer Advocacy, and how that applies to SRE. We discuss the difference between Developer Relations (DevRel) and Developer Advocacy, how Liz got into advocacy, how DevRel helps companies and the community, and some tips on how to get traction with SRE pr…

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Slight Reliability Episode 75 - Enterprise SRE with Steve McGhee 39:00

8M ago39:00

39:00

This week I had the honour of chatting with Steve McGhee (former Google SRE, current Google Reliability Advocate, and co-author of Enterprise Roadmap to SRE). We discuss the evolution of SRE from where it began at Google and how it is being adopted by enterprises around the world now (and why this is happening). We talk about getting leadership sup…

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Slight Reliability Episode 74 - The Hidden Side of Vendor Lock-In 8:55

9M ago8:55

8:55

This week on Slight Reliability Stephen discusses observability vendor lock-in. What is it? What does OpenTelemetry do to help? What areas are yet to be solved? You can find the official Slight Reliability podcast website at: https://slightreliability.com/ You can find Stephen at: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/ Twitter: htt…

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Slight Reliability Episode 73 - Enterprise SLOs with Brian Singer 32:18

9M ago32:18

32:18

This week we sit down and talk about SLOs with CPO and co-founder of Nobl9 Brian Singer. We talk about the importance of reviewing operational effectiveness, getting buy in from leadership, using SLOs to reduce noise, how to implement SLOs within different cultures and structures, the parallels between security and reliability... and much more. You…

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Slight Reliability Episode 72 - Rapid Incident Response with Valeska Victoria 42:19

9M ago42:19

42:19

This week Stephen chats with Valeska Victoria about her time working as an SRE at eBay. Valeska shares her data driven approach to SRE, having a voice as a less experienced engineer, handling incidents under high pressure, leveraging large language models to rapidly find the information you need during an incident, and much more. You can check out …

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Interview with Alice Sheridan 1:12:00

9M ago1:12:00

1:12:00

This week we chat with Alice Sheridan, a London based artist, one half of the popular art podcast ‘Art Juice’, and creator of the ‘Connected Artist Club’, a supportive art community full of advice, resources and workshops. Alice spoke really honestly about her failures, what struck us most how insightful she is when she looks back onto past and rec…

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Slight Reliability Episode 71 - Implementing SRE with Dr. Vlad Ukis 29:25

10M ago29:25

29:25

This week Stephen chats with Dr. Vlad Ukis about his journey discovering, and then implementing SRE practices at Siemens Healthineers (which led to him writing a book). They discuss how the evolution of infrastructure necessitates a shift in how we operate, the power of selling SRE practices, the SRE infrastructure used to build SLOs and reliabilit…

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When Moms Have to Work But The Workforce Doesn’t Support Moms 26:45

9M ago26:45

26:45

Do you feel like working a traditional 9-5 supports your motherhood? Do you ever have to fit your motherhood around your work and not the other way around? If so, join us for todays conversation with one of our friends and very first students to talk about how we’ve experienced the lack of support from the way our traditional workforce is set up, n…

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Is It Time to EVOLVE TARANTULA HUSBANDRY? w/ Ryan Marshall 2:14:22

10M ago2:14:22

2:14:22

This week I sat down with Ryan from Marshall Arachnids to discuss his background in zoology and animal husbandry and how it impacts his tarantula husbandry. We discuss the controversial issues of tarantula care and husbandry and why the bare minimum basic husbandry might no longer be sufficient as we learn more about these arachnids in the wild and…

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Interview with Amber Creswell Bell 51:54

9M ago51:54

51:54

After our ‘Finding gallery representation’ episode we had a bunch of interesting questions from you lovely folks that we definitely wanted to dig into deeper and answer, but we also weren’t sure we were the best people to answer them which is where the idea for this episode came from! We wanted to interview a curator and ask her your questions. We …

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Slight Reliability Episode 70 - Meta SRE with Amin Astaneh 42:24

10M ago42:24

42:24

Amin Astaneh (from Certo Modo) is back to discuss his experience working as a production engineer (SRE equivalent) at Meta. Stephen and Amin discuss what it's like interviewing for big tech, "you build it, you own it", different SRE engagement models, SRE at different sizes of organisation, socialising your SRE success as a way to get traction, and…

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Slight Reliability Episode 69 - Developer to SRE with Praveen Kasam 30:10

10M ago30:10

30:10

This week Stephen talks to Praveen Kasam from Diconium Digital Solutions about how he led SRE transformations. Praveen shares his experience transitioning from development to SRE and how leveraging automation and bringing application knowledge to the ops team provided quick wins. He also covers how he later applied SRE concepts to uplift the wider …

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The Choice You Make Today Determines Your Tomorrow with Kayla Hoffmeier 42:29

10M ago42:29

42:29

Some of the things that are hard about motherhood, we simply can't change. The newborn no sleep season, the exhausted new mom season, the getting used to your body again season, surging hormones season, toddlerhood, fighting siblings, potty training, regulating emotions... there are so many things that we just have to go through as moms. But there …

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Tarantula's Can LEARN!? Tarantula Memory & Behavior 1:51:14

10M ago1:51:14

1:51:14

Support the Show.By Richard

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Slight Reliability Episode 68 - Dashboards and Modern Observability with Eric Schabell 32:31

10M ago32:31

32:31

This week Stephen asks Eric Schabell (Director of Technical Marketing & Evangelism @ Chronosphere) about how dashboards fit into modern observability. They discuss how untamed observability can lead to unexpectedly high cloud bills, the similarities between dashboards and documentation, the "know > triage > understand" workflow, and much more. You …

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Slightly Crunchy Deadlines 33:11

10M ago33:11

33:11

Julie & Phoebe catch up about their weeks, looming deadlines and trips. They talk about the hurdles of buying art supplies and their many abandoned carts. There will be a short break in these "catch up "episodes while Phoebe is away! Stick with us though and make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss us when we're back! Newsletter: (published ea…

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Slight Reliability Episode 67 - Single Pane of Glass with Jamie Allen and Adam Kinniburgh 34:36

10M ago34:36

34:36

This week Stephen chats with Jamie Allen (Cheif Technologist AWS & SRE @ EPAM Systems) and Adam Kinniburgh (VP Innovation @ SquaredUp) about the concept of a single pane of glass (SPOG) for SRE. Is it performance art or something actionable? Can alerting replace the need for dashboards? And are metrics drowning in the wake of distributed tracing? Y…

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No-one Can Do It Like You with Founder Macy Troyer 26:26

10M ago26:26

26:26

Join us for a candid conversation with guest Macy Troyer. In this episode, we have a captivating conversation with the founder and CEO of It's Goaldy, Macy Troyer, who has navigated the challenging waters of entrepreneurship while facing rejection, fear, and self-doubt! Stay tuned as she announces some exciting news! Enjoying Call Us Mommy? Leave u…

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Evolving your art style 1:13:12

10M ago1:13:12

1:13:12

This week we revisit the topic of art style. We dig into the difference between style and genre and discuss how our art styles have emerged, and where they continue to evolve. We discuss the pros and cons of wanting to try ‘everything’ and how some people seem to display a style from the get-go. Julie talks through the differences between her two s…

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Artist, interrupted 30:15

10M ago30:15

30:15

A catch up on our weeks so far! We celebrate hitting 100k downloads and discuss some of our fails and wins, similarities and differences this week. Newsletter: (published each week with Tuesdays episode) Facebook Group: Find Julie here: www.juliebattisti.com , @juliebattisti & Julie’s newsletter Find Phoebe here: www.phoebegander.com , @phoebegande…

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Slight Reliability Episode 66 - Building Digital Assistants for SRE with Kyle Forster 29:51

11M ago29:51

29:51

This week Stephen brings back Kyle Forster from RunWhen to talk about the purple elephant in the room… “AI”. What makes it GenAI, LLM, Advanced Statistics, or ML? Kyle shares his experience surrounding building AI powered search engines for SRE troubleshooting commands and how to incorporate a (paid) open source community of experts rather than tru…

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You Asked, We Answered! 49:00

11M ago49:00

49:00

This week we thought we’d try something new, so as the title suggests we asked the listeners to throw some questions at us. From our favouring artists to our favourite colours, there’s hopefully something of interest for you to listen to as we witter on... Full disclosure, we asked for questions aimed specifically at either of us but ended up just …

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We're both fine 27:46

11M ago27:46

27:46

In this weeks catch up, Julie & Phoebe ignore the rest of their lives and focus on art. Newsletter: (published each week with Tuesdays episode) Facebook Group: Find Julie here: www.juliebattisti.com , @juliebattisti & Julie’s newsletter Find Phoebe here: www.phoebegander.com , @phoebeganderart & Phoebe’s newsletter: Podcast Website: Submit a questi…

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Slight Reliability Episode 65 - The Truth About Incidents with Courtney Nash 41:04

11M ago41:04

41:04

This week Stephen chats with the internet incident librarian herself, Courtney Nash. They explore what Courtney has learned through meta-analysis of the over ten thousands incidents in the Verica Open Incident Database (VOID). They cover why MTTR needs to go in the garbage, joint cognitive systems, the value of looking at near misses and *much* mor…

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Unfiltered Catch-up Call with Ariel + Tianna 26:13

11M ago26:13

26:13

By Laptop + Littles| Ariel + Tianna

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Navigating Comparison & Competitiveness as Artists 53:23

11M ago53:23

53:23

This week on the pod we discuss the tricky subject of comparison and competitiveness. We both admit to having these feelings especially during recent times when sales have been slower, and talk openly about how it makes us feel, and how we manage things when the green eyed monster inevitably does show up. We both realise that it is completely norma…

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The Time Crunch 39:48

11M ago39:48

39:48

Phoebe and Julie talk about their lives post visit, Phoebe talks about her time timer and how she's starting painting again since getting home and Julie talks about the how pressured she feels around time leading up to her exhibition. Artist shout out to : Emilybell.art who has launched her etsy shop! Visit the Fail Like An Artist newsletter for th…

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