Making of the
SRE Omelette
Blending Reliability, Sustainability, Collaboration, and Craftsmanship for Success
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Making of the
Wondering what does an Omelette has to do with SRE - it is based on the analogy that Culture is the outcome of what we do - so in the context of the chicken or the egg. It is like an Omelette - and a podcast was born that is called Making of the SRE Omelette.
The podcast explores achieving positive business and client success outcome via the practice of Site Reliability Engineering. Season 1 focused on culture and Season 2 explores how the practice of Site Reliability Engineering can help and lead us to a more sustainable future.Join us on this journey to surface ingredients for us to drive business and client success via SRE.
Guests and highlights from Seasons 1 and 2, listed in reverse chronological order | Season 3 - Coming Fall of 2025
Guest title reflects the guest's position at the time of the episode.
Jerry Cuomo | IBM Fellow, VP, CTO Technology, host of the Wild Ducks Podcast
Episode 8, AI for Sustainable IT Part 2 of 2
Visit part 1 of the podcast here on Wild Ducks
The conclusion of the two part crossover podcast series explores the intersection of AI with sustainable IT operations featuring Jerry Cuomo from The Art of AI and Kevin Yu from Making of the SRE Omelette...
Mike Hollinger | Master Inventor, CTO for Applied AI & Distinguished Engineer for Maximo
Episode 7, Intelligent Facilities & Assets
Mike Hollinger, Master Inventor, CTO for Applied AI & Distinguished Engineer for Maximo Application Suite talks about how we can leverage operational insights from assets, facilities and infrastructure to drive clean energy transition and decarbonization...
Danny Fontaine | Strategic Sales, IBM, author of 'PITCH', host of Pitch Masters Podcast
Episode 6, Pitch Master
(video version) (audio only)
Have you struggled to convince others of your idea? Be it to tackle a reliability problem or a sustainability challenge. In this episode, I have a conversation with Danny Fontaine - host of the Podcast Pitch Master on how to pitch SRE and Sustainability ideas...
Erin Buonomo | Product Design Executive @ IBM Software
Chris Hammond | Head of Product Design | Delivering Innovation
Episode 6, Sustainability begins with Design
Design transforms the human experience with technology - including the experience for Site Reliability Engineers. And enduring Sustainable results are only achieved when we consider Sustainability in the entire solution life cycle beginning with Design...
Salil Narayanan | CTO of Envizi
Episode 4, Turning Reporting into Actions
If you can't measure it, you can't improve it. This applies to SRE as well as Sustainability. Salil Narayanan - CTO of Envizi captures what it takes to start the Sustainability journey by taking action from reporting. Salil had the foresight of carbon footprint impact management back in 2003 and...
Rishi Vaish | CTO and VP, IBM Sustainability Software
Episode 3, Sustainability by the numbers
Rishi Vaish takes us through Sustainability by the Numbers to give us context and scope of the impact of climate change and why we need to act now. Rishi also gives concrete examples of what we can do to make a difference...
Suzanne Livingston | VP, IBM Sustainability Software
Episode 2, Reliable Sustainability
Sustainability is no longer just an ambition, over the last few years, we’re starting to see companies actively doing things and changing their behaviours to be more sustainable...
Christina Shim | Chief Sustainability Officier, IBM
Episode 1, Sustainability Explained
Christina explains sustainability as leaving the planet better than we are now - meet today's needs and also making sure demands of tomorrow can be met as well. She explains the ESG framework and goes to highlight we shouldn't let the conversation stop at what fits into the bucket of ESG...
Season 1
Marion Clelland | Senior Engineering and SRE Manager
Marion provides advice for managers and leaders to create a safe environment to foster innovation and teamwork with a diverse team in this episode - and a creative way to tackle technical debt...
Kyle Brown | IBM Fellow, VP, CTO to the CIO at IBM
Bonus, Plant based Denver Omelette
In this bonus episode, Kyle shares his secret ingredient to make Omelette or anything taste extra great. As well as his two favorite styles of Omelette and their recipe...
Kyle Brown | IBM Fellow, VP, CTO to the CIO at IBM
Episode 16, Reliability Engineering
This episode is about transforming SRE into how we do business and incorporate Reliability Engineering into the process of building products and features. Kyle Brown, IBM Fellow, VP, CTO for the CIO join us in this episode to talk about this mindset shift...
Andrew Lindsay, Software Performance Analyst
Abhay Choudhary, SR. Data Scientist
Ashley Tate, DevOps Developer, SRE Automation
Episode 15, The three legged stool of SRE
A three-legged stool will not wobble and is stable even on an uneven surface. In this episode, we listen to three Site Reliability Engineers working together to deliver client and business success. Abhay Choudhary, Andrew Lindsay, and Ashley Tate share their journeys that led to the roles they're in today in Data Science, Observability and Automation...
Bill Higgins, VP, AI Open Innovation, IBM Research
Episode 14, There is no SRE without Team
SRE is a team sport - without assists from team members, business and client successes would not be possible. Bill shares how we can be successful via learning, knowing the indicators to ask for help and how to foster an environment where people feel safe to ask for help. Lastly, his ingredient and recipe on building a high performing team. Listen in to Bill and let's level up on your teamwork...
Karel Vredenburg, Global VP, Client Insights & Research | Industry Professor | Non-Profit Board VP | Podcast host of Habits for a Better World
Enterprise Design Thinking has positively influenced how companies build products that deliver happy user experience.
Can the same practice and mindset be applied to SRE? And if so, How?
David Leigh, Distinguished Engineer, Resilience Engineering
Episode 12, Incident Learning via Story Telling
Storytelling helps with learning because engaging stories are easy to remember and are interesting.
David shares why he influenced the IBM CIO to learn from incidents via Story Telling and how other organization can follow this model to learn more about how the systems work and improve business and client success...
Robert Barron, AIOps, ChatOps and SRE @ Office of IBM CIO
Episode 11, Failure is not an Option
Humanity have an enduring desire to explore space - it has led us to push the boundaries of science and technology. Our guest today, Robert Barron has found an amazing connection between space exploration and SRE. I like to think he takes us to where no SRE has gone before!
Isabell Sippli, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM AIOps
Episode 10, Demystifying AIOps
Crystal ball shows that the future of SRE is with AI & ML, having self monitoring, self healing, self managing and self optimizing. Essentially autopilot of operations. While we all appreciate and look forward to that, many people are not sure of the difference between automation and AI. If we all have tasks driven by automation... is that AIOps or is the AI of the future more than that?
Ron Baker, IBM Distinguished Engineer of SRE Operations
Episode 9, SRE Feature Delivery
SRE was created by Google to balance prioritization of features needed for reliability and operations against others - like that shinny new product feature. However, just because we say we embrace SRE culture, mindset or have an SRE team, doesn't mean this problem is magically solved...
Marshall Lamb, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Master Inventor and CTO, IBM Sterling
Episode 8, Supply Chain Resiliency
Supply Chain has become a household term during the pandemic - this is because issues in supply chain has led to disruptions for consumer goods or even chicken sandwich - as Marshall pointed out in his blog post here (https://devopslamb.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/disaster-recovery-for-supply-chains/)
Stacy Joines, IBM Fellow, VP, CTO IBM Account Team for Kyndryl
Stacy Joines - IBM Fellow, VP and CTO in IBM WW Team for Global Markets shares her distinguished field experiences on driving client success for special events and peak shopping season like the US Cyber Monday. Stacy describes what it takes to make SRE outcome real, achieve the business and client success, and how to influence the prioritization to make it happen...
MP English, SRE @ Google, host of Google's SRE Podcast
MP English - host of Google's SRE Prodcast takes the audience through what it's like being an SRE at Google. MP describes the meaning of SRE to them, how it has evolved at Google, how success is measured and how people reinforce the culture and show appreciation to each other. MP also gives advice for practitioners interested in the Site Reliability Engineering profession and the path for success...
Steven Astorino, VP of Development, IBM Data and AI and Canada lab Director
Episode 5, Recipe for Innovation
Innovation is core to organizational success and SRE. Steven Astorino, IBM VP of Development for Data & AI and the IBM Canada Lab Director describes the journey he took to accelerate innovation at IBM - Area 631. Steven shares the problems he observed, how he solved them and highlights the success from the program. The program started in IBM Toronto lab and has since grown to 8 other IBM lab locations. Steven also gives an innovation shout out to Site Reliability Engineers and recipe to accelerate innovation at the enterprise.
Rama Akkiraju, IBM Fellow, CTO AIOps, Forbes 'Top 20 women in AI' 2017, Fortune 'A-team for AI' 2018, Advisor CompTIA AI Council
Rama Akkiraju, IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM AIOps takes the audience through how AIOps can help companies achieve the SRE outcome of meeting SLO and having reliable services. Rama shares the recipe for companies to embrace SRE and gives us a glimpse into the future of SRE with AIOps
Kareem Yusuf, GM of IBM AI Applications and Blockchain
Episode 3, Origin Story of the Omelette
Kareem Yusuf, GM of IBM AI Applications and Blockchain tells the story behind the SRE Omelette. He gives the audience insights into why SRE is essential in delivering meaningful services to customers and describes how he measures ROI (Return on Investment) for SRE. Kareem also shares his thoughts on challenges SRE need to tackle next and gives us his recipe for the SRE Omelette.
Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, VP | CTO Technology
Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, CTO of IBM Automation and host of The Art of Automation podcast takes the audience through the evolution of automation and how it relates to SRE. Jerry shares with the audience of what SRE means to him, touches on the ROI of SRE and ingredient to the SRE omelette. Jerry also has a shout out to all Site Reliability Engineers, past, current and future on innovation in this space.
Ingo Averdunk, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Garage for Cloud, IBM SRE Profession Leader
Ingo Averdunk, IBM Distinguished Engineer and SRE Profession leader takes the audience through the journey and motivation to establish SRE as a job family in IBM. Ingo also captures the SRE mindset and what practitioners (new or experienced) can take to practice SRE.
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