Podcasts

Johnny Boursiquot on Serverless Go and Site Reliability Engineering at Heroku

In this podcast, Johnny Boursiquot, Site Reliability Engineer at Heroku, sat down with InfoQ podcast co-host Daniel Bryant and discussed topics that included: why Go is a useful language for building Function-as-a-Service (FaaS) style applications; how Heroku implements the role of Site Reliability Engineer (SRE); and why the ability to teach is such a valuable skill.

Tanya Reilly on Site Reliability Engineering and the Evolution of the New York City Fire Code

Tanya Reilly discusses her research into how the fire code evolved in New York and draws on some of the parallels she sees in software. Along the way, she discusses what it means to be an SRE, what effective aspects of the role might look like, and her opinions on what we as an industry should be doing to prevent disasters.