Off-Call

What We Talk About

• Defining SRE as "Ops with Boundaries"
• WhatsUp Gold
• Has System Visibility Increased Over Time?
• Anti-Pattern: SRE as Keepers of Observability
• SRE Education at the School of Hard Knocks
• Ref…

Guest: Hanson Ho, Android Architect at Embrace

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Recommended Resources

• DroidconSF 2023: Combating sampling bias in production
• OTel Community Day 24: OpenTelemetry for Mo…

Topics covered

• What it’s really like being on-call for mobile apps
• Reasons mobile teams are siloed in eng orgs
• Whether or not mobile observability is a misnomer
• How OpenTelemetry can bridge the gap betwe…

Covering the challenges of managing a self-hosted observability stack and Dan’s unique on-call experiences, like troubleshooting an incident from an airplane! Later we dive into the Production Engine…

• [00:30] Matthew's First Monitoring Tool was.....
• [02:08] 11 years (and counting) on-call!
• [07:40] That Time Storing A Password In Cleartext Saved The Day
• [12:29] Unwinding Off Call & Signs of Burnout
• [17…

Overview

• 00:45 | Network Observability FTW!
• 07:09  | How has networking changed in the last 5-10 years?
• 10:28   | Has Kubernetes made network engineers' lives easier?

Paige and Leon cover need to know ne…

It's here! Part 2 (of 3) of my conversation with Leon Adato!.

We chat about how to relate monitoring to the only 3 things businesses care about, how  the medical field's "See One, Teach One, Do One" c…

About Leon Adato

In my sordid career, I have been an actor, bug exterminator and wild-animal remover (nothing crazy like pumas or wildebeests. Just skunks, snakes, and raccoons.), electrician, carpent…