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In this episode I provide three more (p)re-reactions to upcoming sessions at o11yfest 2022 (a conference all about observability). The talks I cover are:

"Obserability driven development" by Jessica Kerr
"Return on investment driven observability" by Michael Hausenblas
"How the OpenTelemetry Collector puts you in the driver seat" by Alex Boten

I am also speaking at o11yfest. You can watch my talk on Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th: https://o11yfest.org/

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In this episode I provide a (p)re-reaction to three of the talks that will be included in the upcoming 2022 o11yfest conference (a conference all about observability). The talks I cover are:

"Where the heck are my spans?" by Reese Lee
"Confidence in chaos" by Narmatha Bala
"Is MTTR still relevant in a modern, cloud native world?" by Martin Mao

I am also speaking at o11yfest. You can watch my talk on Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th: https://o11yfest.org/

You can find me on:
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/the_kiwi_sre

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How do you measure the availability of your services? What metric do you pick? What layer of the solution do you track it from?

My colleague Gwen and I are sharing our SLO definition workshop experience at SLOconf from May 9th to 12th: https://www.sloconf.com/

You can also watch my talk on Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th: https://o11yfest.org/

You can find me on:
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In the episode I share our team's experience defining SLO's, and how we experimented and pivoted to achieve better outcomes.

As discussed in the episode, if you would like to hear (and see) more about our SLO workshop, my colleague Gwen and I are speaking at SLOconf from May 9th to 12th: https://www.sloconf.com/

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What are even more antipatterns to avoid in monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging?

Shout out to James Pulley for his contribution to this episode. James is one of the world's leading experts on performance engineering and can be found on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameslpulley3/

I will be presenting about Bad Observability at o11yfest from May 9th to the 12th 2022: https://o11yfest.org/

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What are some more antipatterns to avoid in monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging?

Shout out to Raguraman Balasubramanian (https://www.linkedin.com/in/raguraman-balasubramanian-070150108/) for his contribution to this episode.

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What are some antipatterns to avoid in monitoring, alerting, tracing, and logging?

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What is SRE *really* about? How did it start? What do I *want* it to be? What is it being implemented as in the industry?

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In this episode I wrap up the Performance Time show with some commentary around my blog "Wrapping up 13 years as a Performance Engineer" (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wrapping-up-13-years-performance-engineering-stephen-townshend/)

Can documentation be... fun? How is it relevant to SRE?