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Over the last year I rebuilt an SRE team.
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Presenting to Engineering Leadership
A 5 slide formula with some advice.
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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.
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Why didn't you status?
Demystifying the public status process.
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My Availability Investment Playbook
Advice on how to advocate for availability investments.
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What playing Magic: the Gathering taught me about incidents.
In this post I hope to expose the true depth of my nerd-dom to my readers (and maybe provide some incident response thoughts at the same time).
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Use Memes
The effectiveness of memes in availability campaigns.
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The Rule of 5 Errors
Why request volume matters when building an SLI.
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The Platform Empathy Gap
Reasons for the gap and things you can do about it.
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Tiered Availability Review
Presenting availability at different levels. Why it's important and how you can do it.
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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…
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How much are your 9's worth?
Making your 9’s look great by cheating.
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