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Architectural Insights from a Leading Online Bank’s Director of SRE
In this episode of Big Ideas in App Architecture (with new host David Joy!) our guest, Peter Fraedrich, the Director of SRE at Ally, discusses the agony and the ecstasy of being a Site Reliability Engineer.
Peter shares strong opinions about migrating everything to the cloud, what responsible transitions to serverless architectures look like, the way SREs balance operational cost of new tools with actual cost, and the importance of learning Rust and getting comfortable with containers. There are some good horror stories in here about daytime migrations, databases that fell over, and late afternoon P1s. Join as we discuss:
This episode is not affiliated with Ally Bank. The thoughts and opinions expressed in the episode are of our guest.
Peter shares strong opinions about migrating everything to the cloud, what responsible transitions to serverless architectures look like, the way SREs balance operational cost of new tools with actual cost, and the importance of learning Rust and getting comfortable with containers. There are some good horror stories in here about daytime migrations, databases that fell over, and late afternoon P1s. Join as we discuss:
- How to get less pages on the weekend
- Characteristics that make a great SRE
- Why boring technologies are awesome
This episode is not affiliated with Ally Bank. The thoughts and opinions expressed in the episode are of our guest.
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In this episode of Big Ideas in App Architecture (with new host David Joy!) our guest, Peter Fraedrich, the Director of SRE at Ally, discusses the agony and the ecstasy of being a Site Reliability Engineer.
Peter shares strong opinions about migrating everything to the cloud, what responsible transitions to serverless architectures look like, the way SREs balance operational cost of new tools with actual cost, and the importance of learning Rust and getting comfortable with containers. There are some good horror stories in here about daytime migrations, databases that fell over, and late afternoon P1s. Join as we discuss:
This episode is not affiliated with Ally Bank. The thoughts and opinions expressed in the episode are of our guest.
Peter shares strong opinions about migrating everything to the cloud, what responsible transitions to serverless architectures look like, the way SREs balance operational cost of new tools with actual cost, and the importance of learning Rust and getting comfortable with containers. There are some good horror stories in here about daytime migrations, databases that fell over, and late afternoon P1s. Join as we discuss:
- How to get less pages on the weekend
- Characteristics that make a great SRE
- Why boring technologies are awesome
This episode is not affiliated with Ally Bank. The thoughts and opinions expressed in the episode are of our guest.
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