SRE II with Paul Newson

Our beloved teammate Paul Newson is back from his SRE rotation to tell us about all the lessons that he learned during all these months. Your co-hosts, Mark and Francesc, are as always here to ask all the burning questions.

About Paul

Paul is an SRE Advocate at Google. As part of Google's Cloud developer relations team, he helps our customers understand reliability best practices based on his experiences working as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) on Google Compute Engine and as a Software Engineer on Google Cloud Storage.

Before joining Google, he cofounded a tiny game technology startup, sold it to Microsoft, where he then worked on DirectX, Xbox, Xbox Live, and Forza Motorsport, before spending some time working on interesting machine learning problems in Microsoft Research.

Outside of work he enjoys rock climbing, motorcycling, and other activities that demand complete focus.

He doesn't often post on social media, but when he does, he does it at @newsons_nybbles.

Cool thing of the week

• Fission: Serverless Functions as a Service for Kubernetes Kubernetes blog
• CRE Life Lessons blog post series
• The SRE book is now free! read it online

Interview

More episodes with Paul Newson:

• Storage with Paul Newson episode 14
• Site Reliability Engineering episode 38

More links:

• The SRE book home page
• SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, oh my - CRE life lessons blog post
• A Google SRE explores GitHub reliability with BigQuery blog post
• Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering blog post

Question of the week

The question today comes from StackOverflow.

How can I see which version of an App Engine service is the default?

• app.services/get docs
• Microservices Architecture on Google App Engine docs

Were will we be?

Mark will be at GDC and afterwards he'll be speaking at Cloud NEXT, both in San Francisco.

Francesc is doing a European tour, after speaking at golab and GolangBCN he's currently in Paris and on his way to the Go Devroom at FOSDEM. A bit later he'll also be at Gophercon India.