Episodes

  • Performance Time Episode 28: The Grand Finale!

    Performance Time Episode 28: The Grand Finale!
    Jan 9 2023
    In this episode I wrap up the Performance Time show with some commentary around my blog "Wrapping up 13 years as a Performance Engineer" (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/wrapping-up-13-years-performance-engineering-stephen-townshend/)

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    23 mins
  • Performance Time Episode 27: Oh No! Not Documentation!

    Performance Time Episode 27: Oh No! Not Documentation!
    Jan 9 2023
    Can documentation be... fun? How is it relevant to SRE?

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    12 mins
  • Performance Time Episode 26: Chicken or the Egg? SLI's and SLO's and which comes first?

    Performance Time Episode 26: Chicken or the Egg? SLI's and SLO's and which comes first?
    Jan 9 2023

    This week we look at whether to identify SLI's or SLO's first - and take a look at how both approaches might look like with a ridiculous example.


    The Google Site Reliability Book is free here: https://sre.google/books/ (I bought and listened to the audiobook on Audible).


    The intro and background music is "Elevator Music Lofi" by Oleksii Kaplunskyi.

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    9 mins
  • Performance Time Episode 25: Defining Service Level Indicators

    Performance Time Episode 25: Defining Service Level Indicators
    Jan 9 2023

    What are SLI's, SLO's, and SLA's? Why do they matter? How can you identify SLI's for your products?


    The intro and background music is "Elevator Music Lofi" by Oleksii Kaplunskyi.

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    15 mins
  • Performance Time Episode 24: Kubernetes Explained

    Performance Time Episode 24: Kubernetes Explained
    Jan 9 2023
    In this episode I attempt to explain Kubernetes and what it's all about.

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    9 mins
  • Performance Time Episode 23: Docker

    Performance Time Episode 23: Docker
    Jan 9 2023

    In this episode I try and explain Docker and containers as simply as possible.


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    9 mins
  • Performance Time Episode 22: Signals Amongst the Noise

    Performance Time Episode 22: Signals Amongst the Noise
    Jan 9 2023

    How do you know what to alert on? And are there things we shouldn't alert on? What about dashboards?


    In this episode we talk about locating signals amongst the noise of monitoring and logging data in our organisations.

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    9 mins
  • Performance Time Episode 21: The Four Golden Signals

    Performance Time Episode 21: The Four Golden Signals
    Jan 9 2023
    This week we talk about the Four Golden Signals, a starting point when choosing what to monitor and alert on in your software platforms.

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    12 mins