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Stepping Our Way Into Resilient Services

Is it possible to discover unknown-unknowns proactively with Chaos Engineering? Where exactly is the intersection between intentionally breaking production services

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilitychaos engineeringGremlinJason Yeeresilienceresilience engineeringunknown-unknowns

Driving Observability Adoption Forward as an Internal Champion… During a

Josh from Amperity covers how they planned, strategized, and organized their observability tooling evaluation. Josh also shares how the COVID-19

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityAmperityJosh Parsonspandemicremote

Killing Your Staging Environment

“But it worked in staging!” is the new “But it works in my machine!” Docker, Kubernetes, and friends have made

Engineering Best PracticescloudfareErwin van der KooghProductionstagingstaging environment

Ep. #40, Player Experience with Nick Herring of CCP Games

In episode 40 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Nick Herring of CCP Games. They discuss the challenges faced

DebuggingEngineering Best PracticesObservabilityCCP Gamesdebugginggamergamingnick herring

Ep. #37, Synchronization Layers and Logs with Garry Shutler of Cronofy

In episode 37 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Garry Shutler of Cronofy. Together they pull back the curtain

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityAccessibilityCICDCronofyDeploysGarry Shutlerscheduling tools

Ep. #36, Resilience Engineering with Jacob Scott of Stripe

In episode 36 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jacob Scott of Stripe about the need for SRE teams,

Distributed TracingEngineering Best Practicesdistributed tracingJacob Scottresilienceresilience engineeringSREStripe

DevOps Unbound – The Road to GitOps

Hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Kurt Chase ‎Senior Director, Global Release Management of Tricentis, Charity Majors,

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityapplication lifecycle managementcontinuous improvementDevOpsfeedback loops

Ep. #35, Government Software Systems with Mark Ferlatte of Truss

In episode 35 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Mark Ferlatte of Truss. They discuss government software system failures

Engineering Best PracticescomplexityCOVID-19government systemshealthcarehealthcare.govMark Ferlattesystem failuresTrussvaccine

Ep. #33, Information Accessibility with Katy Farmer of CircleCI

In episode 33 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby are joined by Katy Farmer of CircleCI. They discuss learned helplessness, understanding

CI/CD PipelinesEngineering Best PracticesAccessibilitybeginnerCICDCircleCIcomplicated systemscultureDevReleducationfeedback loopKaty Farmer

Habits of Highly-Performing Teams

There is a yawning gap opening up between the best and the rest—the elite top few percent of engineering teams

Engineering Best Practicesfeedback loopshigh-performingobservability driven developmentODDProductionresiliencesocio-technicalsoftware ownershipteamsunknown-unknowns

Ep. #32, Managing Hardware with Gianluca Arbezzano of Equinix Metal

In episode 32 of o11ycast, Liz and Shelby speak with Gianluca Arbezzano of Equinix Metal. They discuss diversifying the way

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilitycode reviewcollaborationEquinex MetalGianluca Arbezzanoopen source

Ep. #31, Rewarding Curiosity with Ellen Chisa of Dark

In episode 31 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Ellen Chisa of Dark discuss the benefits of making observability tools more

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityCICDDarkDeploysEllen Chisavisibility