Performance Time

In this episode I wrap up the Performance Time show with some commentary around my blog "Wrapping up 13 years as a Performance Engineer" (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wrapping-up-13-years-performance-engineering-stephen-townshend/)

Can documentation be... fun? How is it relevant to SRE?

This week we look at whether to identify SLI's or SLO's first - and take a look at how both approaches might look like with a ridiculous example.The Google Site Reliability Book is free here: https://sre.google/books/ (I bought and listened to the audiobook on Audible).The intro and background music is "Elevator Music Lofi" by Oleksii Kaplunskyi.

What are SLI's, SLO's, and SLA's? Why do they matter? How can you identify SLI's for your products?The intro and background music is "Elevator Music Lofi" by Oleksii Kaplunskyi.

In this episode I try and explain Docker and containers as simply as possible.

How do you know what to alert on? And are there things we shouldn't alert on? What about dashboards?In this episode we talk about locating signals amongst the noise of monitoring and logging data in our organisations.

This week we talk about the Four Golden Signals, a starting point when choosing what to monitor and alert on in your software platforms.

In this episode I share my first week working as an SRE and try to explain what it's all about.