Making of the SRE Omelette

Making of the SRE Omelette

Wondering what does an Omelette has to do with SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) - it is based on the analogy that Culture is the outcome of what we do - so in the context of the chicken or the egg. It is like an Omelette - and a podcast was born that is called Making of the SRE Omelette. The podcast explores achieving positive business and client success outcome via the practice of Site Reliability Engineering. Season 1 focused on culture and Season 2 explored how the practice of Site Reliability Engineering can help and lead us to a more sustainable future. Much like an avid chef who brings their own unique flair to a classic recipe, the art of SRE lies in thoughtfully adapting industry best practices to fit the distinct culture, needs, and goals of our team and organization. This podcast is designed to inspire thoughtful experimentation and encourage personalization—empowering us to forge our own path toward greater reliability, resilience, and long-term success. Join us on this journey to surface ingredients for us to drive business and client success via SRE.

Episodes

February 1, 2024 18 mins

The conclusion of the two part crossover podcast series explores the intersection of AI with sustainable IT operations featuring Jerry Cuomo from The Art of AI and Kevin Yu from Making of the SRE Omelette. The discussion delves into practical measures for more efficient energy use in AI systems, emphasizing the need for data and the analysis of past behavior to inform energy-efficient decision-making. Jerry and Kevin highlight the ...

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Mike Hollinger, Master Inventor, CTO for Applied AI & Distinguished Engineer for Maximo Application Suite talks about how we can leverage operational insights from assets, facilities and infrastructure to drive clean energy transition and decarbonization. Mike shares stories from customers that showcases successes as well as challenges they faced. Mike have a call to action to inspire Site Reliability Engineers to embrace the d...

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September 12, 2023 41 mins

Mike Hollinger, Master Inventor, CTO for Applied AI & Distinguished Engineer for Maximo Application Suite talks about how we can leverage operational insights from assets, facilities and infrastructure to drive clean energy transition and decarbonization. Mike shares stories from customers that showcases successes as well as challenges they faced. Mike have a call to action to inspire Site Reliability Engineers to embrace the...

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Have you struggled to convince others of your idea? Be it to tackle a reliability problem or a sustainability challenge. In this episode, I have a conversation with Danny Fontaine - host of the Podcast Pitch Master on how to pitch SRE and Sustainability ideas.

 

Danny shared one of his favorite stories - the origin of the elevator pitch to get us started - and continued with many others including how he changed the paradigm of a cu...

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July 25, 2023 40 mins

Have you struggled to convince others of your idea? Be it to tackle a reliability problem or a sustainability challenge. In this episode, I have a conversation with Danny Fontaine - host of the Podcast Pitch Master on how to pitch SRE and Sustainability ideas.

Danny shared one of his favorite stories - the origin of the elevator pitch to get us started - and continued with many others including how he changed the paradigm of a ...

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Design transforms the human experience with technology - including the experience for Site Reliability Engineers. And enduring Sustainable results are only achieved when we consider Sustainability in the entire solution life cycle beginning with Design.

In this episode, I have a conversation with Erin Buonomo, Executive Director of Design and Chris Hammond, Distinguished Designer of IBM Sustainability Software on how the SRE d...

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If you can't measure it, you can't improve it. This applies to SRE as well as Sustainability.

Salil Narayanan - CTO of Envizi captures what it takes to start the Sustainability journey by taking action from reporting. Salil had the foresight of carbon footprint impact management back in 2003 and co-founded Omni Meta - which became Envizi. He shares stories over the past 20 years in this space, tips to good visibility and how l...

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Rishi Vaish, VP and CTO of IBM Sustainability Software takes us through Sustainability by the Numbers to give us context and scope of the impact of climate change and why we need to act now. Rishi also gives concrete examples of what we can do to make a difference.

In addition, he has a call to action for Site Reliability Engineers - from questions to get us to think of sustainability from the start, as well as considerations ...

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April 22, 2023 30 mins

Sustainability is no longer just an ambition, over the last few years, we’re starting to see companies actively doing things and changing their behaviours to be more sustainable.

Suzanne Livingston, VP of Development & Reliability Engineering at IBM Sustainability Software takes the audience through the journey of building a solution that is reliable and sustainable from day one. She also shares insights on why Sustainabilit...

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April 22, 2023 28 mins

If you’re listening for the first time and wonder what does an Omelette has to do with SRE - it is based on the analogy that Culture is the outcome of what we do - so in the context of the chicken or the egg. It is like an Omelette.

In season 1 of the show, we focused the culture and practice to achieve the reliability engineering outcome. Season two is all about how the practice of Site Reliability Engineering can play a big p...

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Preview of season 2 of the Making of the SRE Omelette podcast.

Sustainability is front and center of many conversations today - from boardroom to living rooms. But does being sustainable simply mean reducing carbon footprint or does it mean more?

In season 2 of the podcast, we will talk to experts to understand the meaning of sustainability, the outcome we should be targeting. And how the practice of Site Reliability Engineer...

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April 17, 2023 50 mins

Marion provides advice for managers and leaders to create a safe environment to foster innovation and teamwork with a diverse team in this episode - and a creative way to tackle technical debt.

Managers provide leadership, support and mentorship to their teams - they help employees reach their goals and shelter them from unnecessary distractions to help them focus. Marion shares with the SRE community challenges she has observed...

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In this bonus episode, Kyle shares his secret ingredient to make Omelette or anything taste extra great. As well as his two favorite styles of Omelette and their recipe.

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April 2, 2023 45 mins

This episode is about transforming SRE into how we do business and incorporate Reliability Engineering into the process of building products and features. Kyle Brown, IBM Fellow, VP, CTO for the CIO join us in this episode to talk about this mindset shift.

Kyle discusses how Reliability Engineering can be considered in the entire solution lifecycle, how to get there and what it looks like. Kyle also shares his insights for engi...

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A three-legged stool will not wobble and is stable even on an uneven surface. In this episode, we listen to three Site Reliability Engineers working together to deliver client and business success. Abhay Choudhary, Andrew Lindsay, and Ashley Tate share their journeys that led to the roles they're in today in Data Science, Observability and Automation. The three disciplines resemble a three-legged stool that enables a stable prog...

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February 19, 2023 30 mins

SRE is a team sport - without assists from team members, business and client successes would not be possible. Bill shares how we can be successful via learning, knowing the indicators to ask for help and how to foster an environment where people feel safe to ask for help. Lastly, his ingredient and recipe on building a high performing team. Listen in to Bill and let's level up on your teamwork!

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February 3, 2023 20 mins

Enterprise Design Thinking has positively influenced how companies build products that deliver happy user experience.

Can the same practice and mindset be applied to SRE? And if so, How?

Join us to discuss this topic is Karel Vredenburg. Karel is the VP of client insights and research at IBM. He is a great champion of tech vitality and has tremendous industry experiences improving the user experience of human interface to techn...

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Storytelling helps with learning because engaging stories are easy to remember and are interesting.

David shares why he influenced the IBM CIO to learn from incidents via Story Telling and how other organization can follow this model to learn more about how the systems work and improve business and client success.

Listen to this episode to gain ideas on how you can turn your incident learning into an engaging session people l...

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December 22, 2022 27 mins

Humanity have an enduring desire to explore space - it has led us to push the boundaries of science and technology. Our guest today, Robert Barron has found an amazing connection between space exploration and SRE. I like to think he takes us to where no SRE has gone before!

Robert shares with us his favourite stories that draws parallel from Lunar Landing, Shuttle, space exploration to SRE. He also gives what SRE can take as in...

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December 21, 2022 24 mins

Crystal ball shows that the future of SRE is with AI & ML, having self monitoring, self healing, self managing and self optimizing. Essentially autopilot of operations. While we all appreciate and look forward to that, many people are not sure of the difference between automation and AI. If we all have tasks driven by automation... is that AIOps or is the AI of the future more than that?

To help us demystify AI and AIOps i...

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