Episode 186: SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”

SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, and SRE, or, Finding “The Business”

How do SLOs really work, and how do you find "the business"? The three of us couldn't get together this week, so we have an interview this week with Google's Nathen Harvey about SRE. We also talk about European egg hygiene.

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Conferences, et. al.

• ALERT! DevOpsDays Discount - DevOpsDays MSP, August 6th to 7th, $50 off with the code SDT2019.
• 2019, a city near you: The 2019 SpringOne Tours are posted. Coté will be speaking at many of these, hopefully all the ones in EMEA. They’re free and all about programming and DevOps things.
• Cloud Expo Asia Singapore, Oct 9th and 10th
• DevOpsDays Sydney 2019, October 10th and 11th

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Recommendations

• Coté: sit at a cafe in Paris and people watch.

Special Guest: Nathen Harvey.