Episode 126 - SRE Doesn't Scale

Where we have Amin Astaneh on as a guest to discuss DevOps transitions, culture, consultancies and how to move forward in this career. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 137: Certo Modo MongoDB is Webscale Emotional Warrior Certo Modo Substack BOFH DevOps Meetup Talk - Demystifying SRE 8 Steps For Leading Change

Where we discuss people’s tendencies to resist automation of tasks, for whatever reason. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 135: XKCD 1205: Is it worth the time

Where we ChatGPT, Large Language Models and the dangers of trusting AI tools to be correct. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 134: I will not harm you unless you harm me first VSCode Rubberduck Github Copilot Self-hosted Stable Diffusion Microsoft Tay Microsoft Invests in OpenAI

Where we discuss how damaging Shadow IT can be, how to identify it, how to think about it, and some strategies for getting rid of it. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected].

Where look at Hollywood’s inability to get technology in movies even remotely correct… this time, we’re talking about “The Net”, a 1995 Sandra Bullock movie, where so many things are just… wrong. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 132: The Net (1995 film)

Where we discuss another thing that is eating the world - Visual Studio Code. We also talk about IDEs in general. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 130: Bash VIM keybindings Code Server Cloud9 IDE Theia IDE XKCD Ineffective Sorts Stacksort Github Copilot Github Copilot Security Issues VIM codex plugin OpenAI Codex

Where we discuss setting up a zero-trust network access policy - what Google referrs to as “BeyondCorp”. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 129: Cryptocurrencies Are Detrimental to Society BeyondCorp\ BeyondCorp Wikipedia Page Traefik Authelia Bind Response-Policy Zones OpenID Connect Hairpin NAT CloudFlare Teams 1.1.1.1 Ory Pomerium Google Zanzibar

Where we discuss Tyler Treat’s essay about how the paradigm of SRE doesn’t scale. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 126: SRE Doesn’t Scale Google SRE Book: The Evolving SRE Engagement Model Reddit Pay Scale Post

Where we discuss observability, prompted by a post on The New Stack by Charity Majors, looking at the current state of observability in the industry. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 125: Observability (Wikipedia) Observability: The 5-Year Retrospective

Where we discuss grappling with getting structure into our production lives; be it terraform, Active Directory or AWS accounts. Comments for the episode are welcome - at the bottom of the show notes for the episode there is a Disqus setup, or you can email us at [email protected]. Links for Episode 124: Gruntwork