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 jump-starts pretty much any organization? Join Carla Geisser, Cody Smith, and Laura Nolan in their lively convers…

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 advice on how to get what you expect out of a role, wherever on the ladder it is.…

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 Salim Virji

Explore the role and responsibilities of an SRE manager with Stephen Benjamin.By Salim Virji

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 Salim Virji

Explore the career path of SREs Shannon Brady and Theo Klein as they discusses their paths to Site Reliability Engineering and finding their areas of expertise.By Salim Virji

In this episode, Mariuxi and Julian discuss their paths to SRE: what drew them initially to SRE, and what motivates them to continue developing skillsBy Salim Virji

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

Host MP English and former Google SRE John Reese (JTR) chat about the creation of the Prodcast. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcriptBy MP English

Ayelet Sachto offers advice on creating an actionable, transparent, and blameless postmortem culture. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcriptBy MP English, Viv

Adrienne Walcer discusses how to approach and organize incident management efforts throughout the production lifecycle. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcriptBy Viv, MP English

Andrew Widdowson (APW) shares strategies for successful on-call rotations. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcriptBy MP English, Viv

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 https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcriptBy Viv, MP English

Pavan Adharapurapu details how to approach large-scale migrations while optimizing for user experience. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcriptBy MP English, Viv

Narayan Desai explains why SLOs can be problematic and proposes alternative methods for monitoring complex, large-scale systems. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcriptBy Viv, MP English

Amelia Harrison advises on when and how to alert, ideal coverage, and tuning. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcriptBy MP English, Viv

Silvia Esparrachiari talks about the challenges of monitoring and the importance of understanding your users. Visit https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcriptBy Viv, MP English

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 https://sre.google/prodcast for transcripts and links to further reading. View transcriptBy MP English, Viv

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