Making sense of production

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Maggie Johnson-Pint from Stanza sits down with Amal & Divya for a deep-dive in to the production side of the development world. If you’re at all curious (and/or intimidated) by terms like Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Service Level Objective (SLO), OpenTelemetry, distributed tracing, and the like… this episode’s for you!

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Featuring:

• Maggie Johnson-Pint – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• Stanza
• OpenTelemetry
• 📘 Site Reliability Engineering
• 📘 The Site Reliability Workbook
• web components has egg on its face because the zeitgeist

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

บท

1. Opener (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Raygun (00:00:47)

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3. It's party time, y'all! (00:02:35)

4. Welcome, friends! (00:03:24)

5. Getting to know Maggie (00:05:11)

6. Her journey to Site Reliability Engineering (00:07:19)

7. The cultural foundations of SRE (00:09:42)

8. The consequences of webdev innovation (00:12:23)

9. How SRE has evolved over time (00:14:49)

10. OpenTelemetry & standardization (00:15:35)

11. Explaining Service Level Objectives (00:17:41)

12. SLO vs SLA & Five 9's (00:19:12)

13. Connecting SREs to UX (00:21:53)

14. Sponsor: Square (00:23:10)

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15. Is DevOps dead? (00:24:16)

16. What is a golden path? (00:28:52)

17. Are golden paths really the best way? (00:30:01)

18. Divya on SRE, DevOps, etc. (00:32:29)

19. The power of working on JS (00:36:02)

20. Ironies of automation (00:37:30)

21. Amal's HBO show (00:38:39)

22. OpenTelemetry & where it's headed (00:40:04)

23. Sponsor: Sourcegraph (00:42:28)

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24. How frontentenders can be better stewards (00:44:26)

25. Maggie tells us about her startup: Stanza (00:49:28)

https://stanza.systems

26. Maggie's magic wand wish (01:00:24)

27. Goodbye, friends! (01:01:31)

28. Outro (review the pod!) (01:02:52)

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