Off-Call

What We Talk About Defining SRE as "Ops with Boundaries" WhatsUp Gold Has System Visibility Increased Over Time? Anti-Pattern: SRE as Keepers of Observability SRE Education at the School of Hard Knocks Reflecting on 15 Years of On-Call Holidays On-Call Tracking and Quantifying Toil Should Engineering Managers Be On-Call??? 🔗 Amin's Link Roundup 🔗 Connect on LinkedIn Check out his services at Cer...

Guest : Hanson Ho, Android Architect at Embrace Mastodon LinkedIn Bluesky Blog Twitter   Recommended Resources DroidconSF 2023: Combating sampling bias in production OTel Community Day 24: OpenTelemetry for Mobile Apps O11ycast: Ep. #72, Mobile Observability with Hanson Ho Test Case Scenario: Mobile App Testing Automation   Check out Differential Diagnosis (DDx) yourself with this self-guided demo...

Topics covered What it’s really like being on-call for mobile apps Reasons mobile teams are siloed in eng orgs Whether or not mobile observability is a misnomer How OpenTelemetry can bridge the gap between backend and mobile Paige learns with mobile there is no rollback….only roll forward   Guest: Hanson Ho, Android Architect at Embrace Mastodon LinkedIn Bluesky Blog Twitter Recommended Resources...

Covering the challenges of managing a self-hosted observability stack and Dan’s unique on-call experiences, like troubleshooting an incident from an airplane! Later we dive into the Production Engineering initiative at HashiCorp designed to immerse software engineers in proactively exploring observability data to gain a deeper understanding of system behavior. Of course we cover the significance o...

[00:30] Matthew's First Monitoring Tool was..... [02:08] 11 years (and counting) on-call! [07:40] That Time Storing A Password In Cleartext Saved The Day [12:29] Unwinding Off Call & Signs of Burnout [17:13] Responding To A Customer's Malicious Insider Incident [19:32] What app devs need to know about monitoring databases [28:32] Has database monitoring gotten better over time? [32:15] Operating D...

Overview 00:45 | Network Observability FTW! 07:09  | How has networking changed in the last 5-10 years? 10:28   | Has Kubernetes made network engineers' lives easier? Paige and Leon cover need to know networking concepts for developers and answer the very important questions “How much has networking really changed in the last 5-10 years?” AND “Has Kubernetes made any of this stuff easier ?!” Leon’...

It's here! Part 2 (of 3) of my conversation with Leon Adato!. We chat about how to relate monitoring to the only 3 things businesses care about, how  the medical field's "See One, Teach One, Do One" can be adapted for onboarding devs, the real life give and take with on-call, and our requirements for paging alerts! 03:33 On-Call Advice for Newbies 09:25 Leon's Off-Call Life 13:32 Tempering On-Call...

About Leon Adato In my sordid career, I have been an actor, bug exterminator and wild-animal remover (nothing crazy like pumas or wildebeests. Just skunks, snakes, and raccoons.), electrician, carpenter, stage-combat instructor, ASL interpreter, and Sunday school teacher. Oh, yeah, I’ve also worked with computers. While my first keyboard was an IBMs electric, and my first digital experience was on...

Introducing Off-Call, a podcast that explores the ways in which software and systems break, the people behind the pagers, and the data they use to put everything back together. Brought to you by Paige Cruz and Chronosphere. Follow Off-Call  x Paige:  - Mastodon - Bluesky - https://offcall.simplecast.com/   Check out Chronosphere at www.chronosphere.io