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Over the last year I rebuilt an SRE team.
Mar 6, 2023 • 
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Presenting to Engineering Leadership
A 5 slide formula with some advice.
May 5, 2024 • 
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Presenting to Engineering Leadership
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.
Mar 16, 2024 • 
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Why didn't you status?
Demystifying the public status process.
May 18, 2024 • 
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My Availability Investment Playbook
Advice on how to advocate for availability investments.
Apr 28, 2024 • 
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My Availability Investment Playbook
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).
Apr 20, 2024 • 
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What playing Magic: the Gathering taught me about incidents.
Use Memes
The effectiveness of memes in availability campaigns.
May 24, 2024 • 
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The Rule of 5 Errors
Why request volume matters when building an SLI.
May 13, 2024 • 
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The Platform Empathy Gap
Reasons for the gap and things you can do about it.
Apr 13, 2024 • 
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The Platform Empathy Gap
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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Tiered Availability Review
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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Managing Risk as an SRE
How much are your 9's worth?
Making your 9’s look great by cheating.
Mar 19, 2024 • 
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How much are your 9's worth?
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