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This week I share the observations I made at AWS re:Invent relating to SRE work including the lack of SREs at the event, data warehouses for observability data, the use of topologies to understand complexity, FinOps, serverless, making sense of enormous amounts of data... and more.

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This week I was at the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, so I took the opportunity to walk around the expo asking observability vendors what their perspective or definition of "observability" was (and reflected on that).

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In this episode I explore the different kinds of SRE out there and the different needs they fill in the industry, and discuss some ethically dubious practices around hiring SREs.

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In this episode I chat to Kyle Forster and Shea Stewart from RunWhen about the concept of "social reliability engineering" and how it could help SREs from organisations all over the world create an ecosystem of sharing and collaboration.

You can find Kyle on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyforster/
You can find Shea on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheastewart/
To find out more about RunWhen: https://www.runwhen.com/
And an example of the "street map view" of a tech stack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOvH9lcgCXg

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In this episode I reflect back on the very first episode of Slight Reliability "What the heck is SRE anyway?" and see if my perspective has changed since then. I also tackle the confusion about what SRE is and is not.

Shout out to Sebastian Vietz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastianvietz/) for his "Service Reliability Engineering" terminology and Richard Benwell (https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-benwell-ab887b11/) for highlighting the way SRE offers a different value proposition depending on the scale of the services in question.

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In this episode I announce my new role as Developer Advocate (SRE) at SquaredUp, and what this means for the Slight Reliability podcast.

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In this episode I give a summary of the book Team Topologies by Matthew Skelton and Manual Pais (https://teamtopologies.com/book) and how this relates to implementing SRE practices.

(POINT OF CORRECTION: One of the authors is "Matthew" Skelton, not "Michael")

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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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