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The Trouble with Certificates with Charlie Al-Batty (Episode 123)
May 21, 2026
27m 00s
Being a Digital Nomad with Amin Astaneh (Episode 122)
May 5, 2026
40m 27s
Four Golden Signals to Kickstart SRE (Episode 121)
Apr 22, 2026
16m 14s
Staying Motivated as a Leader with Cads Oakley (Episode 120)
Apr 7, 2026
36m 34s
A Beginner's Guide to SRE (Episode 119)
Mar 24, 2026
25m 21s
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| 5/21/26 |  The Trouble with Certificates with Charlie Al-Batty (Episode 123) | Send us Fan Mail Why do some of the most mature organisations in the world still experience major incidents due to expired or incorrectly applied certificates? This week I'm joined by SRE and DevOps expert Charlie Al-Batty to discuss this and many other things including... ☁︎ His open source project for native SLOs and SLIs in Azure 🔧Building tools and automation to solve problems Dealing with alert fatigue 👾 AI enabling us to become super developers 📜 The role of certifications in tech ...... | 27m 00s | ||||||
| 5/5/26 |  Being a Digital Nomad with Amin Astaneh (Episode 122) | Send us Fan Mail Can you combine your career with personal adventure? What would it be like to live in a truck and travel the country while working remotely? This week I'm joined again by SRE & DevOps legend Amin Astaneh in one of the most human interviews I've ever done. We explore... 💉 The impact of the post-Covid layoffs 🛻 The logistics of living in a mobile home 💥 Staring a consultancy ❤️ The impact of the nomad lifestyle on relationships 🧸 Being woken up by a giant black bear ...and ... | 40m 27s | ||||||
| 4/22/26 |  Four Golden Signals to Kickstart SRE (Episode 121) | Send us Fan Mail When you first start implementing SRE it's a good idea to find early wins. Implementing monitoring of the four golden signals + availability is something I'm experimenting with at the moment to give our SRE team momentum and to pave the way for SLOs and more advanced observability. In this solo episode I share my experiences, including... 💛 What are the four golden signals? 🦥 Observability in an async processing context 📏 The power of tracking availability 🤷 Why SLOs can be c... | 16m 14s | ||||||
| 4/7/26 |  Staying Motivated as a Leader with Cads Oakley (Episode 120) | Send us Fan Mail As an engineer you get constant dopamine hits by solving technical problems. As a leader you're often working toward long term goals that span months or years. How do you stay motivated in that context? This week I'm joined by technology leader and fellow Aucklander Cads Oakley. We cover... 🐆 Don't chase the result, harvest the learning 🏆 The payoff for being a leader 🎁 Giving feedback and giving others permission to give it to you 💉 The role of dopamine 🤷 How much control do... | 36m 34s | ||||||
| 3/24/26 |  A Beginner's Guide to SRE (Episode 119) | Send us Fan Mail This week I repurpose a talk I just did at the JuniorDev meetup in Auckland. If you're new to SRE or observability then this is the talk for you. For the more seasoned listeners, it's a chance to see how my perspective and understanding has changed over the years. In the episode I refer to the This Is Fine! podcast on resilience engineering: https://www.thisisfinepod.com/ You can read the Google SRE books for free online here: https://sre.google/books/ You can buy Slight... | 25m 21s | ||||||
| 3/10/26 |  Freeing Observability Data Hostages with Jacob Leverich (Episode 118) | Send us Fan Mail How do you ingest and store petabytes of telemetry every day in a cost effective and high performing way? How can you do this in a way which gives engineers the operational data they need to keep services running? How has this challenge be tackled in the past and what's been the evolution? This week I'm joined by Observe co-founder Jacob Leverich to go deep into this topic. We discuss... 💾 A deep-dive into the evolution of telemetry storage and where it's going 💽 The advent o... | 43m 07s | ||||||
| 2/24/26 |  How to Change the World with Rob Roe (Episode 117) | Send us Fan Mail How do you take all the utopian ideas you read about in books and apply them to the reality of the organisations we work in? This week I'm joined by leader, mentor, and coach Rob Roe to tackle this question. We discuss... 🌪️ The pitfalls of functional silos 🤫 Is the annual budget a load of rubbish? 🍃 How our management promotion systems are often broken 🫂 The power of virtual teams 📗 Team interaction models ...and much more. You can find Rob on... LinkedIn: https://www.linked... | 33m 52s | ||||||
| 2/10/26 |  Human Software with Richard Bown (Episode 116) | Send us Fan Mail We spend a third of our life at work. It needs to be something we enjoy and something with purpose. Our work experience also impacts our family, friends, and our personal lives. This week I'm joined by tech engineer, leader, and author Richard Bown to explore this and many other topics including... 🌪️ The difficulty in applying the ideas we read in books in real organisations 🤫 When you want to implement a thing you can't talk directly about the thing 🍃 Does change require se... | 32m 09s | ||||||
| 1/27/26 |  Leadership Gym with Xiao Zhang (Episode 115) | Send us Fan Mail When you become a people leader there is no manual. How can we not only learn leadership skills but practice them and build leadership muscle? This week I'm joined by Orion Group Limited co-founder Xiao Zhang to discuss... 👑 The challenge of transitioning into people leadership 💪 How we don't get fit by watching other people work out ⌚ Pausing as an act of active leadership 🌌 The power of slack time for creativity and systems thinking 🌊 Going below the waterline ...and much m... | 32m 50s | ||||||
| 1/13/26 |  Starting a New Role (Episode 114) | Send us Fan Mail This week I kick off the 2026 season with some news and we explore how to prepare for a new role. You can buy Slight Reliability merch here (Note: you cannot order the mugs outside of New Zealand): https://slightreliability.digitees.co.nz/ You can find Stephen on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.social YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/SlightReliability Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sligh... | 11m 23s | ||||||
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| 12/16/25 |  AI Use-cases for SRE with Shmuel Kliger (Episode 113) | Send us Fan Mail From the day we invented computers we've been struggling to keep applications running and delivering services to the business. Is this latest wave of AI helping or hurting us? This week I'm joined by Causely founder Shmuel Kliger to dive into... 🌊 The three waves of AI hype over the decades (the history of AI) ☠️ The dangers of over-promising and under-delivering what AI can do 🧠 What is causal reasoning? 😱 Is AI replacing SREs? 🔮 AI as a way to allow humans to solve higher l... | 31m 51s | ||||||
| 12/9/25 |  Operational Intelligence with Adam Kinniburgh (Episode 112) | Send us Fan Mail What is operational intelligence and how is it different from observability or BI? This week I'm joined by SquaredUp's VP of Innovation Adam Kinniburgh to answer that question and many more including... ❓ What is operational intelligence? 🙈 Relating observability back to customer, business, or revenue 😎 The value of giving stakeholders confidence 🌉 Who bridges the gap between tech and business or engineers and leadership? 🦋 Correlation VS causation and our innate desire to bu... | 31m 17s | ||||||
| 11/25/25 |  Leading Platform Teams with Dinesh Sukhija (Episode 111) | Send us Fan Mail How does leading platform teams differ from leading product teams? This week I'm joined by experienced technology leader Dinesh Sukhija to answer that question and many more including... ❓ What is a platform team? ⚽ Coaching engineers to focus on outcomes ☀️ Connecting platform initiatives to business goals ✋ Identifying the limiters in your team 🎤 Spreading knowledge and avoiding single points of failure ...and much more. You can find Dinesh on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedi... | 32m 01s | ||||||
| 11/18/25 |  Leadership Round One! (Episode 110) | Send us Fan Mail How has my first two years as a manager in tech been? What have I learned? What do I need to work on? This week I share my experiences over the past couple of years. I cover: 🔥 My recent close call with burnout 🫶 How I attempted to build a team culture 💪 The importance of tough conversations 🥱 How roles and responsibilities might be boring to think about but is critical ❓ What's next? ...and much more. You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend... | 19m 59s | ||||||
| 11/4/25 |  The Implications of AI on Observability with Aaron "Checo" Pacheco (Episode 109) | Send us Fan Mail How could AI help human beings negotiate the mountains of telemetry we collect to get simple and fast insight? This week I'm joined by Ottermon AI CEO and founder Checo Pacheco about the lifecycle of observability coverage and tooling within organisations and how AI is helping to find signals amongst the noise and reduce cognitive load for SREs. We discuss... 🎂 The need for a layer of logic on top of our telemetry data 🚲 The observability lifecycle of a DevOps team 🎶 How most... | 38m 27s | ||||||
| 10/25/25 |  Chaos Engineering with Kolton Andrus (Episode 108) | Send us Fan Mail What is chaos engineering and how is it being used in 2025? This week I'm joined by Gremlin CEO and founder Kolton Andrus to discuss... 🌪️ What is chaos engineering and what is its origins? 🪴 How has it evolved over the year? 🤖 The role of AI agents in SRE work 💰 Justifying the value of chaos engineering 🏃♀️➡️ How do I get started? ...and much more. You can find Kolton on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kolton-andrus-77315a2/ And you can find out more about Gremlin's... | 31m 16s | ||||||
| 10/7/25 |  Team Topologies with Luke McManus (Episode 107) | Send us Fan Mail What are Team Topologies? How can they be used to deliver value simpler and more effectively (and in a more humane way)? This week I'm joined by Luke McManus to discuss... ⛰️ What are the four team topologies? 🏆 Can we have too much collaboration? ⌚ Team interaction models 🌏 Cognitive load 🏃♀️➡️ Value dynamics mapping ...and much more. You can find Luke on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-mcmanus-agile/ Check out the recently released second edition of the Team T... | 23m 10s | ||||||
| 9/23/25 |  Contributing to Open Source with Wendy Ha (Episode 106) | Send us Fan Mail How do you begin contributing to an open source project? What's it like? What do you get out of it? This week I'm joined by Wendy Ha who shares her unique story of joining the Kubernetes project and becoming a contributor. We explore... ⛰️ What it's like working on one of the biggest open source projects in the world 🏆 The benefits of contributing to open source ⌚ How much time and effort does it take? 🌏 The unique challenges of contributing from APAC (and the need for more c... | 43m 52s | ||||||
| 9/9/25 |  Influencing Leadership with Nora Jones (Episode 105) | Send us Fan Mail As an #SRE how do you influence senior leadership to get support and priority for the things you care about? To answer this question I'm joined by Nora Jones, founder of Jeli and now Head of Pricing, Product Strategy and Growth at PagerDuty. Our conversation touches on... 🤝 How understanding needs to flow both ways (between engineers and leaders) 🎨 Reliability is as much an art as a science 📝 Using napkin math to start conversations 🧠 Understand the system (your org) before t... | 28m 16s | ||||||
| 8/26/25 | Slight Reliability Podcast Retrospective (Episode 104) | Send us Fan Mail This week I do a retrospective on the Slight Reliability podcast. 👂 How many people listen to it? ❤️ How do I feel about the show? 🎉 What's going well? 🪴 What could be better? ❔ What's next for the show? If you want to check out the podcast that came before Slight Reliability, you can find Performance Time archived on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@performance-time You can find Stephen on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/ Bluesky: https://bsky.a... | 27m 28s | ||||||
| 8/12/25 |  Burnout with Colette Alexander (Episode 103) | Send us Fan Mail Have you burned out at work? What was your experience? How did you work through it? This week I'm joined by the incredible Colette Alexander to discuss what burnout is, what it means, and we both share our personal experiences burning out at work. We cover... 🔥 What is burnout? ❓ Why does it happen? 🫀 What are the symptoms? 🥊 Fight, flight, or freeze 🧑🚒 Advice on how to recover ...and much more. Resources from the show... Why you're so angry at work (and what to do about it)... | 38m 36s | ||||||
| 7/29/25 |  Mobile Observability with Hanson Ho (Episode 102) | Send us Fan Mail This week I'm joined by the wonderful Hanson Ho to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities in making our mobile apps observable! We cover... 📱 The mobile/backend observability divide ✍️ The challenge of distributed tracing on mobile apps 🌏 The entire device runtime environment matters for your app 👤 The quest for user-centric mobile observability ✅ Advice on how to get started with mobile observability ...and much more. You can find Hanson on: LinkedIn: https://www.li... | 31m 57s | ||||||
| 7/15/25 |  Intro to Resilience Engineering with Michelle Casey (Episode 101) | Send us Fan Mail This week on the I'm joined once more by SRE leader Michelle Casey who gives a broad and shallow introduction to resilience engineering. We cover... 🏋️♀️ Reliability VS Robustness VS Resilience 🧩 What is a complex system? 🔢 Safety one/safety two 🧠 Mental models 😩 Human error ...and so much more. Resources from this episode: Four concepts for resilience (paper) by Dr. David Woods https://www.researchgate.net/publication/276139783_Four_concepts_for_resilience_and_the_implicati... | 39m 36s | ||||||
| 6/24/25 |  Learning with John Allspaw (Episode 100) | Send us Fan Mail This week on the 100th episode I'm joined by DevOps and Resilience Engineering legend John Allspaw to talk about learning (especially from incidents). We discuss... 📒 Classroom VS situated learning 🤝 The myth of the perfect handover ITIL as a coping strategy to try and make sense of the organic, wild, and messy 🥕 How you cannot incentivise to avoid incidents (it doesn't work that way) ❤️🩹 You can't understand how something is broken unless you know how it's supposed to work... | 48m 17s | ||||||
| 6/3/25 |  Focusing on What Matters with Trent Hornibrook (Episode 99) | Send us Fan Mail This week I'm joined by SRE leader Trent Hornibrook who shares a story about how he improved on-call early in his career, and then we explore the broader theme of focusing on the things that matter in observability, incident response, on-call, and beyond. We discuss... 🔌 Empowering engineers to implement change in your org 🧑🍼 Focusing on what matters (customer & business > technology) 👀 Not just adding more monitoring as the output of each PIR 😎 How autonomy can lead ... | 29m 28s | ||||||
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