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In this episode I give my take on the Accelerate State of DevOps 2022 from the SRE perspective.

You can find the Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2022 here: https://cloud.google.com/devops/state-of-devops/

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In this episode I share my experience relapsing into anxiety and insomnia, ruminate on an SRE's sphere of influence, and tease an upcoming change of role.

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In this episode I reflect on the book "The Toyota Way" by Jeffrey Liker, and explore four principles which resonate with my work.

The book in question is The Toyota Way: https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Way-Second-Management-Manufacturer/dp/1260468518

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In this episode I discuss the concept behind continuous delivery and share the ideas we've been exploring at IAG.

The book I mentioned is The Toyota Way: https://www.amazon.com/Toyota-Way-Second-Management-Manufacturer/dp/1260468518 

You can find me on:
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In this episode I have a chat with Bangser about the transition from testing to SRE, the barriers thrown in front of testers (which SREs don't tend to face), being humble to be let in the door, and *much* more.

You can find Abby on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abbybangser/

The book she mentioned was Infrastructure as Code by Kief Morris https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/books/infrastructure-as-code-2nd-edition

You can find Chastity Majors (cofounder of Honeycomb) on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy

You can find me on:
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In this episode I share the story of Grafana Central, an observability platform that we've been standing up at IAG.

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In this episode I share a talk I did earlier in the year as part of the Grafana User Group APAC. I share our experiences attempting to implement SLOs at IAG, and our reliability benchmarking work which is a great way to get started if SRE is brand new to your organisation.

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In this episode I share experiences and ideas about Kubernetes, and what I learned from speaking to Ruben Hakopiean from Kubevious.

I'd like to give a huge shout out to Ruben. Many of the topics and ideas discussed come straight from what was discussed in the interview we recorded (but were unable to publish due to audio issues).

You can find Ruben on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rubenhak/
And find out more about Kubevious here: https://kubevious.io/

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In this episode I have a chat with Joey Hendricks about running performance tests in production.

You can find Joey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joey-hendricks/
And GitHub: https://github.com/JoeyHendricks

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In this episode I share my takeaways from the NZ DevOps Summit held in Auckland. This was the first in-person event I had attended in three years.

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