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Dig into Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (#STPA) to identify design flaws early in the software development process. Google SRE Theo Klein and Distinguished Engineer Jeffrey Snover explain how STPA minimizes software defects -- before writing code!

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Adam Fletcher (@writeaheadlog), CEO and Co-Founder of MarketStreet, joins us to talk about the current state of web development with LLMs, managing technical debt in startups, the role of community in technology, and the future of software engineering with AI -- and more!.

We are proud of our colleagues, including many SRE, who developed and have been instrumental in Spanner's enduring impact. Celebrating the 2025 ACM SIGMOD Systems Award @googlecloud

@sfurino thank you for joining us on The Prodcast

In this episode of the Prodcast, Sal Furino joins the Prodcast to break down SLOs into key components, to discuss how SLOs support continuous improvement, and to encourage all of us to develop SLOs that measure user happiness,

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Matt Zelesko, VP of SRE @google, joins us to discuss the evolution of SRE's core model, the sheet scale of Google's infrastructure, and how AI is influencing SRE practices.

The Prodcast welcomes Todd Underwood (@tmu, reliability @AnthropicAI) for some real talk about how we use AI in our day-to-day. Join us to hear Todd’s insight into AI and reliability, and discover the one SLO that people working on AI should have!

Peter also emphasizes the importance of community support, proactive planning, and learning from real-world testing and incidents to ensure high availability and resilience in data center operations.

Peter Pellerzi, a Distinguished Engineer at Google joins The Prodcast to discuss the scale of Google's data centers, handling incidents like power outages, testing and preparedness strategies, and the use of AI for optimizing cooling plants.

The crew also delves into the balance between security and SRE, acknowledging the tension and the need for collaboration between teams to achieve business goals and user trust.

Jessica Theodat joins hosts Jordan Greenberg and Steve McGhee to discuss the intersection of security and site reliability engineering. Jessica touches on risk management, the nature of security incident responses, and common goals of security and SRE.

Our "prodverbs" (aka production proverbs) capture general beliefs that SREs have — or, IMHO, _should_ have. These reflect our experience running services in production, and some insight into how we work as SRE. Check out this latest instalment!

Prodcast, Google's podcast on Site Reliability Engineering, returns for "Friends and Trends": discussions with folks from product development, networking, datacenter construction, and much, more more! .

Check out this upcoming ✨free ✨ course for #DevOps and #SRE:. SRE Fundamentals takes place over two weeks, with a focus on service level objectives and systems design. You'll have hands-on exercises, mentoring, and more!

Prodcast Season 3 is available on YouTube! Join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to discuss software systems designed and built by SREs. Join us ✨soon ✨ for an all-new season!

Come talk to Google's SRE team about your reliability challenges! . SRE will have a kiosk in the Community Hub on the main floor, in addition to bookable customer meetings. #GoogleCloudNext..