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How much are their 9's worth?
Digging into some SLAs
Mar 24
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Ross Brodbeck
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How much are your 9's worth?
Making your 9’s look great by cheating.
Mar 19
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Ross Brodbeck
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Different Ways to Aggregate Nines
While working on SLOs, SLAs and SLIs I have found that there are only so many ways to aggregate service metrics. I have not yet found somewhere that…
Mar 16
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May 2023
Display GitHub Status on a Tidbyt
Sometimes it can be fun to get away from managing and organizational stuff and just hack on something for a while. In my case that has meant an impulse…
May 4, 2023
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March 2023
Perception Shaping
I recently watched Lorin Hochstein's LFI talk "Your Understanding of Reality is Wrong" . It made me want to write about the key function of SRE being to…
Mar 31, 2023
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Managing Risk as an SRE
Last time I talked about evangelism as an SRE and how it is an important and additional skill an SRE needs to possess compared to an infrastructure or…
Mar 16, 2023
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SRE Evangelist
Over the last year I rebuilt an SRE team. It made me start to think a lot about what an SRE is and, maybe more importantly, what they are at GitHub…
Mar 6, 2023
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February 2023
Tiered Availability Review
Presenting availability at different levels. Why it's important and how you can do it.
Feb 17, 2023
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Ross Brodbeck
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The 3 Pillars of Service Availability
Basic things you need to drive accountability for availability.
Feb 10, 2023
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Ross Brodbeck
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The Virtuous Cycle
Communicating the availability basics.
Feb 6, 2023
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Ross Brodbeck
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February 2022
Why don't software engineering teams just say no?
And how you can get better at it.
Feb 7, 2022
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October 2015
How to Evaluate Product Management at a Technology Company
Evaluating companies from the perspective of a software developer.
Oct 2, 2015
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Ross Brodbeck
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