Making of the SRE Omelette

Episode 16 - Reliability Engineering

Making of the SRE Omelette

Show Notes

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 engineers to progress in their career and where Reliability Engineering will become in the future.

Lastly, as an avid chef, Kyle also shares with us recipe for a real Omelette in a bonus episode!

Things to listen for:

[01:31 - 05:04] What SRE means to Kyle

[05:42 - 11:17] Reliability Engineering is a life cycle effort

[11:57 - 15:50] Kyle's take on Non-Functional-Requirements

[22:04 - 26:02] Would we get to self-running business?

[26:54 - 33:19] How to get started to get to the SRE culture

[33:38 - 40:46] Kyle's insights for growing your career

[41:44 - 44:51] Kyle recipe for the SRE Omelette

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