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#24 – Growing as an SRE (Part 1)
Episode 24 [SREpath Podcast] My dear SRE friend, You – like many other SREs – want to progress into more senior roles in the future. This is known as career progression. Successful career progression in Site Reliability Engineering means constantly growing your ability to handle a wider scope of responsibility. But there are 3 lesser-known…
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#23 – The Danger of Unreliable Platforms (with Jade Rubick)
Episode 23 [SREpath Podcast] Show notes Jade Rubick needs no introduction in the reliability and observability space. He was VP of Engineering at New Relic from 2010 to 2019. It was my pleasure to have him talk about issues like managing expectations with teams, especially platform-based teams. We even had a spicy take on their…
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#22 – How Google does SRE consulting (with Yury Niño Roa)
Episode 22 [SREpath Podcast] Show notes I did not know that Google itself does consulting around its SRE practices. This is not a sponsored episode LOL! I wanted to talk with my SRE friend, Yury Niño Roa, about her drawings and SRE ideas, but we dove into a whole lot more than that. We spoke…
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#21 – Better SRE in 2024 is all we can hope for
Episode 21 [SREpath Podcast] Show notes Sebastian is back for this episode to help set out direction for 2024. We reflected during the holidays on the problems SREs faced in 2023 in terms of job insecurity, burnout, and “that really shouldn’t be my sole job”. Sebastian and I talked about what we hope to bring…
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#20 Holiday special with Stephen Townshend
Episode 20 [SREpath Podcast] Join Ash Patel and Stephen Townshend for a friendly chat about what they’ve learned in SRE as 2023 comes toward a wrap! Stephen hosts Slight Reliability, a highly popular podcast on Site Reliability Engineering. He also was a developer advocate at SquaredUp until recently and now is back at IAG Insurance…
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#19 How to Develop Early Career Engineers (with John Hyland)
Episode 19 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel talks with John Hyland who ran the Ignite Program at New Relic, which is dedicated to developing early career engineers. John shares insights about driving better outcomes for the organization and the early career professionals who join them. Episode Transcript Ash Patel: Great to have you on, John. I am…
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#18 Winning at SRE in Banking and Telecom (with Troy Koss)
Episode 18 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel talks with Troy Koss who is the Director of SRE at CapitalOne, an early adopter of DevOps and SRE in the banking sector. He shares insights on working in regulated industries like banking telecom with his early work experience being at Verizon, a US telecom. Troy also shares his…
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#17 Lessons from SRE’s Wild West Days (with Rick Boone)
Episode 17 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel interviews Rick Boone who is a pioneering engineer in the field of infrastructure and reliability engineering. Rick worked at Facebook in production engineering when it was still called AppOps. He is also well known as being Uber’s first SRE hire. He shares amazing stories from those pioneering days. Rick…
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#16 Acing Cloud Infra Leadership in Digital Media Giant (with Sreejith Chelanchery)
Episode 16 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel interviews Sreejith Chelanchery who is SVP of Delivery and Infrastructure Engineering at Dotdash Meredith. Sreejith shares his journey from programming analyst in Bangalore, India, to now being an executive responsible for platform engineering, DevOps, and SRE at a media giant in New York City. He gives a glimpse into…
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#15 Growing Reliability Engineering Across 5+ Companies (with Nash Seshan)
Episode 15 [SREpath Podcast] Ash Patel talks with Nash Seshan, who has supported reliability work in over 5 organizations, including Cisco, eBay, Dropbox, Lyft, Netflix, and Wayfair. He shares his learnings from reliability work at these big brands. Nash also draws from his experience as co-founder of a Y Combinator-funded startup on effective engineering leadership.…
