Ash Patel explores Spotify's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice and how it transformed the company's software operations. He discusses the hypergrowth challenge faced by Spotify before it implemented SRE practices. He also deep dives into how SRE has helped Spotify's broader engineering work. You'll learn about specific practices of Spotify's SREs and their culture.…

Ash Patel explores Disney's Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice and how it transformed the company's software operations. He discusses the challenges faced by Disney's SRE teams before the implementation of SRE practices. He also deep dives into the initiatives Disney SREs championed to address these challenges. You'll learn about specific practices of Disney's SREs and their culture, including their values of collaboration, curiosity, and courage. Disney's SREs have embraced a generative culture that empowers knowledge workers to achieve their edge and fostered a service mindset to be of service to the business stakeholders and technologists on the ground. Timestamps for key concepts Disney's SRE Challenges [00:01:03] Disney's SRE teams faced challenges such as silos, bureaucracy, low reliability, low security, low resiliency, and low quality. Disney's Observability and Configuration Management [00:06:42] Disney's SREs invested in observability tools such as Splunk, Grafana, and PagerDuty, and used configuration management tools such as Puppet and Chef to achieve consistent infrastructure. Disney's SRE Culture [00:10:09] Disney's SRE culture values collaboration, curiosity, and courage, and has helped them become less transactional and more integrated with their work. Disney's Generative Culture [00:11:17] Disney's SRE leadership has adopted a generative culture that empowers knowledge workers to achieve their edge, encouraging a service mindset and fostering effective collaboration. T-Shaped Skills and Community of Practice [00:12:17] Disney's SREs possess a broad range of skills and knowledge across different fields while also having deep expertise in a particular area, and participating in a community of practice to continue developing their skills. Disney's SRE Culture [00:13:20] Disney's SRE culture stands for collaboration, curiosity, and courage, and emphasizes the importance of core DevOps processes such as continuous integration and delivery, automated testing, and observability.…

LinkedIn has a formidable Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice that handles billions of pageviews and trillions of Kafka messages every single day. In this episode of Site Reliability Executive, we will explore LinkedIn's SRE practice including its systems, how its engineers have contributed to the SRE community, and how its SRE culture works.…

Netflix has a formidable Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice that has brought Chaos Engineering to the SRE world and more. In this episode of Site Reliability Executive, we will explore Uber's SRE practice including its systems, how its engineers have contributed to the SRE community, and how its SRE culture works.…

Uber is not as well known for its Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) prowess as other companies, but it pulls its weight. Especially when it comes to distributed tracing. In this episode of Site Reliability Executive, we will explore Uber's SRE practice including its systems, how its engineers have contributed to the SRE community, and how its SRE culture works.…