Uptime is what SRE is all about – or is it?

Jeremy Proffitt, Director DevOps and SRE at Ally Financial, technology craftsman and problem solver, is today’s guest at the All Things Ops podcast, hosted by Elias Voelker.

They talk about:

1. Different approaches to thinking about technical debt
2. Why 'uptime' may not be the best KPI out there
3. How to handle the trade-offs of having multiple observability systems
4. How Jeremy successfully uses runbooks with his teams

About Jeremy
Jeremy is Director DevOps and SRE at Ally Financial. His role is to ensure that his team gives DevOps services, like CI/CD pipelines and QA testing, as well as the observability that comes with those, to the Customer Communications Unit of Ally. Jeremy started dabbling with computers when he was about 10 or 11. That was also the age when he destroyed one for the first time.

About Ally Financial
Ally Financial is a financial services company powered by a top direct banking franchise and was founded in 1919. Ally's automotive services business offers a full suite of financing products and services. Its Commercial Finance unit provides financing to middle-market companies across a broad range of industries.

About the host Elias
Elias is a highly driven commercial leader in technology with an entrepreneurial mindset. He is Director of International and Indirect Business at tribe29. In his spare time, he likes to do triathlon.

Get in touch with Elias via LinkedIn or email [email protected]

Shownotes Jeremy
Find Jeremy on LinkedIn
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremy-proffitt-11279889)
or
at [email protected]
Jeremy's company Ally Financial
(https://www.ally.com/)

Podcast Music

Music by Ströme, used by permission
‚Panta Rhei‘ written by Mario Schoenhofer
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