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Most reliability incidents don’t start with a failure.
They start with “we’ll fix it later.”

A brittle deploy, a noisy alert, a manual process that “rarely runs.”
Months pass, context fades, the system grows.

Then something small breaks — and the deferred work becomes the incident.

Reliability doesn’t fail all at once.
It erodes quietly, then shows up loudly.

#ReliabilityEngineering #TechDebt

Thanks for all the boosts y'all!!

Someone pointed out I should mention: I am in Southern California, fully remote.

#SRE #FediHire #ReliabilityEngineering #IncidentResponse #resilience

Four applications out today, thank you for the suggestions and links!

#SRE #FediHire #ReliabilityEngineering #IncidentResponse #resilience

Hey everyone!

I just got a rejection from a long interview cycle. It's weighing on me very heavy right now, my migraine is making sure of it.

Currently I am feeling emotionally drained and today I don't feel like I can keep doing this for much longer. Yet I must persist.

If you know of anything having to do with Site Reliability, Observability, or Incident Management... please, please, send it my way. I will take anything at this point, junior roles, mid-level, I will do anything.

Pretty soon our savings will be completely gone.

#SRE #FediHire #ReliabilityEngineering #IncidentResponse #resilience

I’m casually looking, but if you or a colleague are looking for someone w/ a 10y background in #ReliabilityEngineering (#manufacturing, not software) & a burgeoning skill set in #Data #Analytics (halfway through #GaTech #OMSA ), please do tell. I’m in the #DC #DMV #NoVa area & am not willing to relocate. I can travel when needed & work remotely otherwise. I can share a resume or #LinkedIn profile upon request.
#GetFediHired #FediHire #FediHired
#DataScience #DataAnalytics #PowerBI

Here's a new blog post from me! It's a small "book" review, which is actually a workbook with some essays at the beginning.

The short book is Maj. John Schmitt's exercise book on Tactical Decision Games (TDGs) for the Marines (and likely other branches), and I noticed how much the philosophy behind them is shared with the sorts of Practice of Practice games we play to understand the system and prepare ourselves for incidents.

https://www.sounding.com/2025/05/02/schmitt-tdg-sre/

#SRE #TDG #PracticeOfPractice #TabletopExercises #OperationalReadiness #IncidentResponse #TacticalDecisionGames #Resilience #ResilienceEngineering #ReliabilityEngineering

My second report from #SREcon: Some of the same lessons -- and unsolved problems -- from supporting #machinelearning apps in production carry over to #generativeAI apps, but not all. Attendees discussed the similarities and important differences. #reliabilityengineering #ML #GenAI #LLM #AI #MLOps #LLMOps https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366621071/Site-Reliability-Engineers-weigh-MLOps-vs-LLMOps

Google SREs reveal how search handled record World Cup traffic spike: Google's Search Reliability team discusses challenges, strategies, and successes in maintaining service during peak events. https://ppc.land/google-sres-reveal-how-search-handled-record-world-cup-traffic-spike-2/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #GoogleSRE #WorldCup #SearchEngine #TechNews #ReliabilityEngineering

Perhaps you need a distraction, why not read about the importance of making Documentation part of your workflow?

https://www.sounding.com/2024/11/01/to-doc-or-not/

#SRE #ReliabilityEngineering #DevOps #Observability #ProductionReadiness

Hey y'all! Any SREs out there?

Any *aspirational* SREs out there?

Maybe there's a team at work who they call "SRE" and you're really not sure what they do if it's not infra/platform/deploy?

A coworker is interested in switching careers to SRE and asked me for reading recommendations. So I put together the most solid top-five for me, from my experience and perspective of doing Ops for 30 years and SRE for 12:

https://www.sounding.com/2024/10/03/five-reads-for-learning-sre/

#SRE #ContinuousLearning #ResilienceEngineering #ReliabilityEngineering #DevOps #TechOps #HumanError #ComplexSystems #SystemsThinking

Anyone looking for a (manufacturing-related) #Reliability #Engineer?

• BS #MechanicalEngineering @ #VirginiaTech
• MS #MarineEngineering @ US #MerchantMarineAcademy #USMMA
• Starting a MS #DataAnalytics @ #GeorgiaTech

• 8y in Marine Engineering
• 10y in #ReliabilityEngineering
• Looking to leverage #RE experience on new data analytics path
• Love #PowerBI

I’m in Northern VA, USA #NoVa w/ few local options; #remotework ✅, some travel ✅.

(Note: My RE is NOT site-RE or DevOps)
#GetFediHired

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40397637

Clear-eyed explanation of disastrous fragility in current technical systems, yet it’s also very funny. Plus discussion. Well worth your time, and good inspiration for systems builders/sysadmins.

#sysadmin #antifragile #reliabilityengineering #softwaredevelopment

👋 My last #introduction was in 2022, so here's an update:

- Security Squad Lead at #Chainguard
- Keenly interested in #InfoSec and #ReliabilityEngineering
- 30 years of experience messing with the Internet & UNIX
- I build bamboo bicycle frames & spend more time tinkering than riding
- Spend my idle time playing #guitar and wandering on 2-wheel EVs
- Live in #Carrboro NC with my wife & kids
- Contributed to 150+ #OpenSource projects including 50+ I've created - #malcontent is my latest.

If you’re making an app that doesn’t even need cloud connectivity in the first place, but forces you to log in and then your remote auth server is down and you can’t use the app, I have three pieces of advice for you:

#cloud #cloudcomputing #bluetooth #iot #reliability #reliabilityengineering #softwaredesign #software