Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) with Wilmer van der Gaast and Andy Sykes

Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) with Wilmer van der Gaast and Andy Sykes

This episode features Google engineers Wilmer van der Gaast (Production on-tall) and Andy Sykes (Senior Staff Systems Engineer, SRE), joining hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss the development and maintenance of Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8). They highlight the initial motivations for creating the service, technical challenges like cache poisoning and load balancing, as well as the collaborative effort between SRE and SWE teams to address these issues. They also reflect on the evolving nature of SRE and advice for aspiring SREs.

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The One with Ben Good and Our Kubernetes Friends

The One with Ben Good and Our Kubernetes Friends

In this special episode hosts Steve McGhee from the Google SRE Prodcast and Kaslin Fields from the Google Kubernetes Podcast, welcome Google Cloud Solutions Architect Ben Good to discuss platform engi...

30 Heinä 202532min

The One With AI Agents, Ramón Llamas, and Swapnil Haria

The One With AI Agents, Ramón Llamas, and Swapnil Haria

Google Staff SRE Ramón Llamas and Google Software Engineer Swapnil Haria join our hosts to explore how AI agents are revolutionizing production management, from summarizing alerts and finding hidden e...

23 Heinä 202542min

The One with Technical Program Managers and Karanveer Anand

The One with Technical Program Managers and Karanveer Anand

This episode features Google Technical Program Manager (TPM) Karanveer Anand, who joins our hosts to discuss the unique role of TPMs in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The conversation highlights ...

16 Heinä 202527min

The One with STPA, Jeffrey Snover, and Theo Klein

The One with STPA, Jeffrey Snover, and Theo Klein

This episode discusses Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), a method for analyzing complex systems. Theo Klein, a Google SRE, and Jeffrey Snover, a Distinguished Engineer at Google, explain that...

2 Heinä 202537min

The One with Startups and Adam Fletcher

The One with Startups and Adam Fletcher

In this episode, hosts Steve McGhee and Matt Siegler are joined by guest, Adam Fletcher, CEO and Co-Founder of MarketStreet. They discuss the current state of web development with LLMs, managing techn...

25 Kesä 202541min

The One with SLOs and Sal Furino

The One with SLOs and Sal Furino

In this episode, Sal Furino, Customer Reliability Engineer at Bloomberg, discusses all things Service Level Objectives (SLOs) with hosts Steve McGhee and Matt Siegler. Together, they dig into what suc...

18 Kesä 202543min

The One With the Future of SRE and Matt Zelesko

The One With the Future of SRE and Matt Zelesko

Matt Zelesko, the head of Site Reliability Engineering at Google, discusses the evolution of SRE, highlighting the shift from traditional operations to a model that balances velocity and reliability t...

11 Kesä 202526min

The One with AI and Todd Underwood

The One with AI and Todd Underwood

In this Google Prodcast episode, Todd Underwood, a reliability expert from Anthropic with experience at Google and OpenAI, discusses the current state and future of AI in SRE. Todd and the hosts focus...

4 Kesä 202543min