Welcome to the latest season of ShipTalk! In this episode, we get to talk to Dr. Vlad Ukis, Head of R&D for Siemens Healthineers and author of Establishing SRE Foundations. 

We cover several great topics from starting and scaling an SRE function in a healthcare/regulated industry to how to go about renegotiating your SLOs. 

* Road to SaaS
* How to renegotiate SLOs
* Changes in SRE practices through the years

In this episode of ShipTalk, Arch Mortgage Insurance Company's Head of Infrastructure and Operations, Scott Lee, discusses his home automation solution, deep dives into the massive gap between remote workers and their managers, and share a story about that one time he lived in an RV for 18 months with his wife and 2 dogs.

Introductions
Just for fun #1 - Automate all the things at home
Main topic - A doctoral discussion on remote working
Just for fun #2 - Scott's life in an RV and how he incorporated home automation

In this episode of ShipTalk, Deutsche Bank's Head of Cloud Engineering , Bijit Ghosh, takes us on a culinary journey to Croatia, discusses cloud native adoption and cultural change in the high stakes world of financial services, and brings us all home for meal time with the Ghosh family.

Introductions
Just for fun #1 - Bijit's favorite travel destination
Main topic - Cloud Native adoption and cultural change in Financial Services
Just for fun #2 - Bijit's favorite hobby

In this episode of ShipTalk, our host Jim Hirschauer interviews many of the speakers from the WTF is SRE conference and discusses the many life lessons they express. This episode is packed with important lessons to help you interact with your co-workers and to succeed in life in general. The crew also has some fun discussing foods for a deserted island.

Introduction
What's your favorite...?
If you could give yourself one...what would it be?
Just for fun ... Deserted island food

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Red Hat's Chief Mermaid, Hilliary Lipsig, defines a new word that all techies should adopt into their vocabulary. For the main course, Hilliary describes how to use Observability data to do so much more than most companies are doing today. She also shares her favorite hobby which is something I have never heard of before.

Introductions
Just for fun #1 - Hilliary's new word - ooming
Main topic - Using Observability data proactively
Just for fun #2 - Hilliary's favorite hobby

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Kyle Shelton tells us about his experience using and building developer platforms to enhance the developer experience. He also shares his favorite hobby and cautionary tale about a preventable outage that cost ~$1M ... ouch! Be sure to check out Kyle blog site at https://chaoskyle.com/

Introductions
Just for fun #1 - Kyle's favorite hobby
Main topic - The value of IDPs and some advice on getting started
Just for fun #2 - Kyle's worst IT mess-up

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Steve McGhee shares tells us about a new open-source project that helps SREs understand which capabilities are required to achieve increasing levels of reliability (the nines). He also shares some interesting stories about misadventures with user files and how Google handled the news that Michael Jackson had passed away.

Introductions
Just for fun #1 - Steve's activities outside of work
Main topic - r9y.dev, what it is, how to use it, how to contribute
Just for fun #2 - Steve's worst IT mess-ups and creating a new unit of measure
Closing

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Adrian Cockcroft shares his thoughts on "the 5th accelerate metric" - reliability - and the State of DevOps, using error budgets, and how to achieve continuous reliability. He shares some interesting stories about the differences between Netflix and Google, as well as some personal stories to boot.

Introductions
Just for fun #1 - Adrian's favorite hobby
Main topic - State of DevOps reliability metric, error budgets, continuous resiliency
Just for fun #2 - Adrian's best travel destination
Closing

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Bryan Finster discusses how to ensure reliability and resiliency across the SDLC by making everything part of the pipeline.

• Introductions
• Just for fun #1 - Bryan's favorite hobby
• Main topic - Leaning into delivery pipelines to ensure reliability and resiliency while creating efficiencies.
• Just for fun #2 - Bryan's worst IT mess up
• Closing

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Matt Schillerstrom shares stories from his time working in reliability at a nuclear power plant and at Target. We've changed up the format of ShipTalk to include some sections that are just for fun...

• Introductions
• Just for fun #1 - 1 truth and 1 lie
• Main topic - The impact of efficiency initiatives and how to avoid/minimize the negative consequences
• Just for fun #2 - Matt's worst IT mess up
• Closing