S2:E8 - What You Need to Know About Site Reliability

In this episode, we're talking SRE with Logan McDonald, senior site reliability engineer at BuzzFeed, and Molly Struve, lead site reliability engineer at Forem. We get into what site reliability is, the history, some SRE horror, what developers can do to make an SRE's job easier, and more.

Show Notes

• DevNews (sponsor)
• CodeNewbie (sponsor)
• DataStax (sponsor)
• Cockroach Labs (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
• Swimm (DevDiscuss) (sponsor)
• Stellar (sponsor)
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
• BuzzFeed
• Elasticsearch
• Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails
• Ada Developers Academy
• Kickstarter
• Black swan theory

Logan McDonald

Logan is a releng-focused senior site reliability engineer at BuzzFeed. If Logan has a personal brand, she hopes it is "Friendly Neighborhood Operations Engineer."

Molly Struve

Molly Struve is senior site reliability engineer at Netflix and former head of engineering at Forem. During her time working in the software industry, she has had the opportunity to work on some challenging problems and thrives on creating reliable, performant infrastructure that can grow as fast as a booming business. When not making systems run faster, she can be found fulfilling her need for speed by riding and jumping her show horses