The One With Shannon Brady and Operating Systems

The One With Shannon Brady and Operating Systems

In this episode of the Prodcast, guest Shannon Brady speaks with hosts Jordan Greenberg and Florian Rathgeber about managing Google's vast fleet of internal devices. Shannon explains how Google's Linux platform uses core SRE principles—specifically testing, canarying, and monitoring—for weekly stage rollouts of its Debian-based distribution. Configuration is efficiently managed using Puppet to ensure the right setup for a diverse user base. The conversation pivots to "the year of Linux everything," underscoring its widespread adoption. Discussing AI, Shannon identifies its greatest utility for SREs in rapidly analyzing signals and generating complex queries to resolve outages. This episode reinforces that practicing SRE fundamentals is paramount, demonstrating that you can be an SRE at heart, regardless of your official title.

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SRE, a Basis of Influence, with Amy Tobey & Vladyslav Ukis

SRE, a Basis of Influence, with Amy Tobey & Vladyslav Ukis

In this season of Google Prodcast, current and former SREs, both within and outside of Google, chat with hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to discuss software systems designed and built by SREs....

4 Syys 202441min

Life of An SRE: Life after Google SRE, with Carla Geisser, Cody Smith, and Laura Nolan

Life of An SRE: Life after Google SRE, with Carla Geisser, Cody Smith, and Laura Nolan

Former Google SREs, or "Xooglers", talk with hosts MP and Steve McGhee about site reliability engineering outside of Google. What's the difference in scale? What skills are generally valuable? And why...

7 Marras 202346min

Life of An SRE with Sabrina Farmer

Life of An SRE with Sabrina Farmer

Sabrina Farmer, VP of Engineering at Google, talks about her career journey through Site Reliability Engineering. What does management mean? What's involved in being an effective manager? and what's ...

31 Loka 202351min

Life of An SRE with Dave Reisner

Life of An SRE with Dave Reisner

Dave Reisner talks about his path to Staff SRE, from ArchLinux contributor through DevOps to software engineer. This episode emphasizes the value of strong mentoring and manager relationships, and the...

17 Loka 202329min

Life of an SRE with Stephen Benjamin

Life of an SRE with Stephen Benjamin

Explore the role and responsibilities of an SRE manager with Stephen Benjamin.

10 Loka 202332min

Life of An SRE with Jessica Theodat

Life of An SRE with Jessica Theodat

Explore the role and responsibilities of a Senior SRE with Jessica Theodat, as she discusses life-work balance, the value of mentoring, and being a Black woman in SRE.

3 Loka 202325min

Life of An SRE with Shannon Brady and Theo Klein

Life of An SRE with Shannon Brady and Theo Klein

Explore the career path of SREs Shannon Brady and Theo Klein as they discusses their paths to Site Reliability Engineering and finding their areas of expertise.

26 Syys 202344min

Life of An SRE with Mariuxi Vasconez and Julian Alarcon

Life of An SRE with Mariuxi Vasconez and Julian Alarcon

In this episode, Mariuxi and Julian discuss their paths to SRE: what drew them initially to SRE, and what motivates them to continue developing skills

19 Syys 202334min