Screaming In The Cloud

Some companies that offer services expect you to do things their way or take the highway. However, Google expects people to simply adapt the tech company’s suggestions and best practices for their specific context. This is how things are done at Google, but this may not work in your environment. Today, we’re talking to Liz Fong-Jones, a Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google. Liz works on the Google Cloud Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team and enjoys helping people adapt reliability practices in a way that makes sense for their companies. Some of the highlights of the show include: Liz figures out an appropriate level of reliability for a service and how a service is engineered to meet that target Staff SRE involves implementation, and then identifying and solving problems Google’s CRE team makes sure Google Cloud customers can build seamless services on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Service Level Objectives (SLOs) include error budgets, service level indicators, and key metrics to