Google SRE Prodcast
by Salim Virji
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Ship it! with William Holroyd and Regulated Clouds
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About this podcast
SRE Prodcast brings Google's experience with Site Reliability Engineering together with special guests and exciting topics to discuss the present and future of reliable production engineering!
Episodes
The newest 50 of 63 episodes
- Ship it! with William Holroyd and Regulated Clouds · 27 min · Season 7 Episode 3In Season 7, Episode 3 of The Prodcast, hosts Jordan Greenberg and Steve McGhee sit down with William Holroyd, an Site Reliability Engineer specializing in regulated cloud, for…
- Ship it! with Avery Pennarun and Tailscale · 42 min · Season 7 Episode 1Avery Pennarun, CEO and co-founder of Tailscale, joins the Prodcast to discuss reliability, enterprise scaling, and engineering philosophy. This episode discusses how taking…
- Ship it! with Daniel Hobe · 27 min · Season 7 Episode 1Daniel Hobe, SRE leader for Search, Geo, and DeepMind at Google, joins hosts Steve McGhee and Matt Siegler to discuss the unique engineering and cultural challenges of…
- Adam Kramer discusses Incident Response · 16 min · Season 6 Episode 4Google's Tech Incident Response Team (IRT) manages the complex production environment during times of intensive change. In this episode, IRT member Adam Kramer talks about the…
- Courtney Nash on Complex Systems · 8 min · Season 6 Episode 8Courtney Nash of The VOID discusses the role of human expertise in managing complex systems, and how SREs continue to bring critical value even as technology and AI evolve.
- John Allspaw at SREcon Part 2 · 10 min · Season 6 Episode 7John Allspaw joins Prodcast hosts Matt Siegler and Florian Rathgeber for a candid discussion of reliability topics at SREcon Americas 2026.
- John Allspaw at SREcon Part 1 · 9 min · Season 6 Episode 6John Allspaw discusses reliability with Prodcast host Steve McGhee at SREcon Americas 2026
- Ricard Bejarano: The SRE At Home · 8 min · Season 6 Episode 5We speak with Ricard Bejarano about being an SRE at home, discussing Home Lab systems.
- Matt Zelesko and the Future of SRE · 23 min · Season 6 Episode 4We sit down with Matt Zelesko, VP of SRE at Google, for a candid talk about how AI is changing SRE — and how it's not.
- Handling Burnout with Sam Anderson · 10 min · Season 6 Episode 3Sam Anderson shares his experiences with burnout, and how to support yourself as a reliable system. Sam provides guidance on how to deal with burnout, and some suggestions on how…
- The One with Crisis Engineering and Mikey Dickerson · 43 min · Season 6 Episode 2Crisis Engineer Mikey Dickerson joins us to talk about what constitutes a crisis. Mikey draws on his broad experience across industry and the public sector, as well as on work…
- This is Fine! With Colette Alexander and Clint Byrum · 9 min · Season 6 Episode 1What's happening in the world of SRE and resilience engineering? Join us as we catch up with fellow podcast hosts Colette Alexander and Clint Byrum of the This Is Fine! podcast…
- The One With Damion Yates and Building AI systems · 31 min · Season 5 Episode 8How do you introduce Site Reliability Engineering to an AI research lab, bringing concepts of scale to engineers who are at the leading edge of AI systems? In the latest episode…
- The One With Carla Geisser and Crisis Engineering · 26 min · Season 5 Episode 7Join us for a discussion with Carla Geisser of Layer Aleph, a company focused on "crisis engineering". Carla distinguishes a crisis from a standard incident by noting that a…
- The One with Parker Barnes, Felipe Tiengo Ferreira, and AI · 36 min · Season 5 Episode 6This episode of the Prodcast tackles the challenges of maintaining AI safety and alignment in production. Guests Felipe Tiengo Ferreira and Parker Barnes join hosts Matt Siegler…
- The One With Shannon Brady and Operating Systems · 24 min · Season 5 Episode 5In this episode of the Prodcast, guest Shannon Brady speaks with hosts Jordan Greenberg and Florian Rathgeber about managing Google's vast fleet of internal devices. Shannon…
- The One With Denia Del Cid and AI · 30 min · Season 5 Episode 4Curious about the real impact of AI on Site Reliability Engineering? In this episode of The Prodcast, Google SRE Denia del Cid breaks down how her team is leveraging AI to…
- The One With Heather Adkins and Security (and AI) · 25 min · Season 5 Episode 3Join us on The Prodcast as we host Heather Adkins, leader of Google's Office of Cybersecurity Resilience, for a critical look at the future of digital defenses. We explore the…
- The One With SLOs · 39 min · Season 5 Episode 2In this episode, we welcome Alex Hidalgo and Brian Singer of nobl9 to discuss Service Level Objectives (SLOs). Alex and Brian talk about how SLOs can establish a vernacular…
- The One With Steph Hippo and Observability · 34 min · Season 5 Episode 1In this episode, Steph Hippo, Platform Engineering Director at Honeycomb, joins The Prodcast to discuss AI and SRE. Steph explains how observability helps us understand complex…
- The One with Ben Good and Our Kubernetes Friends · 32 min · Season 4 Episode 10In this special episode hosts Steve McGhee from the Google SRE Prodcast and Kaslin Fields from the Google Kubernetes Podcast, welcome Google Cloud Solutions Architect Ben Good to…
- The One With AI Agents, Ramón Llamas, and Swapnil Haria · 42 min · Season 4 Episode 9Google Staff SRE Ramón Llamas and Google Software Engineer Swapnil Haria join our hosts to explore how AI agents are revolutionizing production management, from summarizing…
- The One with Technical Program Managers and Karanveer Anand · 28 min · Season 4 Episode 8This episode features Google Technical Program Manager (TPM) Karanveer Anand, who joins our hosts to discuss the unique role of TPMs in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). The…
- The One with STPA, Jeffrey Snover, and Theo Klein · 37 min · Season 4 Episode 7This episode discusses Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA), a method for analyzing complex systems. Theo Klein, a Google SRE, and Jeffrey Snover, a Distinguished Engineer…
- The One with Startups and Adam Fletcher · 41 min · Season 4 Episode 6In this episode, hosts Steve McGhee and Matt Siegler are joined by guest, Adam Fletcher, CEO and Co-Founder of MarketStreet. They discuss the current state of web development…
- The One with SLOs and Sal Furino · 44 min · Season 4 Episode 5In this episode, Sal Furino, Customer Reliability Engineer at Bloomberg, discusses all things Service Level Objectives (SLOs) with hosts Steve McGhee and Matt Siegler. Together…
- The One With the Future of SRE and Matt Zelesko · 27 min · Season 4 Episode 4Matt Zelesko, the head of Site Reliability Engineering at Google, discusses the evolution of SRE, highlighting the shift from traditional operations to a model that balances…
- The One with AI and Todd Underwood · 43 min · Season 4 Episode 3In this Google Prodcast episode, Todd Underwood, a reliability expert from Anthropic with experience at Google and OpenAI, discusses the current state and future of AI in SRE…
- The One With Data Centers and Peter Pellerzi · 36 min · Season 4 Episode 2This episode features guest, Peter Pellerzi (Distinguished Engineer, Google). Peter and the hosts, Matt Siegler and Steve McGhee, focus on the physical infrastructure side of…
- The One With Security and Jessica Theodat · 20 min · Season 4 Episode 1Jessica Theodat (Senior SRE & Security Tech Lead, Google) joins hosts Jordan Greenberg and Steve McGhee to discuss the intersection of security and site reliability engineering…
- We're back with Season 4! · 15 min · Season 4In this "bumpisode", hosts and producers of Prodcast (including our new co-host, Matt Siegler!) reflect on the previous season and introduce the new season's focus on upcoming…
- Special Episode: You Missed a Page from Telebot · 16 min · Season 3 Episode 14This episode features Javi Beltran, a Google engineering lead who created the "Telebot" theme song. With our beloved hosts, Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, Beltran discusses…
- Imperative vs. Declarative Change Workflows with Dominic Hutton & Niccolo' Cascarano · 36 min · Season 3 Episode 13In this episode of the Prodcast, guests Dominic Hutton (Staff SRE, HashiCorp) and Niccolo' Cascarano (Senior Staff SRE at Google) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to…
- Human Factors in Complex Systems with Casey Rosenthal and John Allspaw · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 12This episode features Casey Rosenthal (Founder, Cirrusly.ai) and John Allspaw (Founder and Principal, Adaptive Capacity Labs), joining our hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan…
- Embracing Complexity with Christina Schulman & Dr. Laura Maguire · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 11In this episode of the Prodcast, we are joined by guests Christina Schulman (Staff SRE, Google) and Dr. Laura Maguire (Principal Engineer, Trace Cognitive Engineering). They…
- Maglev: load balancing at Google with Cody Smith and Trisha Weir · 33 min · Season 3 Episode 10In this episode, Cody Smith (CTO and Co-founder, Camus Energy) & Trisha Weir (SRE Department Lead, Google) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss their…
- Profiling data with Pat Somaru and Narayan Desai · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 9In this episode, guests Narayan Desai (Principal SRE, Google) and Pat Somaru (Senior Production Engineer, Meta) join hosts Steve McGhee and Florian Rathgeber to discuss the…
- Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8) with Wilmer van der Gaast and Andy Sykes · 32 min · Season 3 Episode 8This episode features Google engineers Wilmer van der Gaast (Production on-tall) and Andy Sykes (Senior Staff Systems Engineer, SRE), joining hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan…
- SRE in the Retail and Gaming Worlds with Jordan Chernev & Scott Bowers · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 7Guests Jordan Chernev (Senior Technology Executive) and Scott Bowers (SRE, Gearbox Software) who hail from the retail and gaming industries, respectively, join hosts Steve McGhee…
- Incident Response with Sarah Butt and Vrai Stacey · 44 min · Season 3 Episode 6Sarah Butt (Principal Engineer, Centralized Incident Response, Salesforce) and Vrai Stacey (Staff Software Engineer, Google) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to dive…
- Building Reliable Systems with Silvia Botros and Niall Murphy · 42 min · Season 3 Episode 5Silvia Botros (SRE Architect, Twilio | Author of "High Performance MySQL, 4th edition") and Niall Murphy (Co-founder & CEO, Stanza) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg…
- Creating Systems that are Safe with Liz Fong-Jones · 29 min · Season 3 Episode 4Liz Fong-Jones (former Google SRE and current Field CTO at honeycomb.io) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg for a lively discussion centered around observability, its…
- Production Problems Are For All! with Ben Treynor Sloss · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 3Ben Treynor Sloss (VP of Engineering, Google) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Dr. Jennifer Petoff (Director of Technical Infrastructure Education, Google) to share the evolution of…
- There Remains a Huge Amount of Work to Do, with Healfdene Goguen · 26 min · Season 3 Episode 2In this episode, Healfdene Goguen (Principal Engineer, Google) joins hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to discuss the vast amount of work to be done by SREs, and the…
- SRE, a Basis of Influence, with Amy Tobey & Vladyslav Ukis · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 1In this season of Google Prodcast, current and former SREs, both within and outside of Google, chat with hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg to discuss software systems…
- Life of An SRE: Life after Google SRE, with Carla Geisser, Cody Smith, and Laura Nolan · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 8Former Google SREs, or "Xooglers", talk with hosts MP and Steve McGhee about site reliability engineering outside of Google. What's the difference in scale? What skills are…
- Life of An SRE with Sabrina Farmer · 51 min · Season 2 Episode 7Sabrina Farmer, VP of Engineering at Google, talks about her career journey through Site Reliability Engineering. What does management mean? What's involved in being an effective…
- Life of An SRE with Dave Reisner · 30 min · Season 2 Episode 6Dave Reisner talks about his path to Staff SRE, from ArchLinux contributor through DevOps to software engineer. This episode emphasizes the value of strong mentoring and manager…
- Life of an SRE with Stephen Benjamin · 32 min · Season 2 Episode 5Explore the role and responsibilities of an SRE manager with Stephen Benjamin.
- Life of An SRE with Jessica Theodat · 26 minExplore the role and responsibilities of a Senior SRE with Jessica Theodat, as she discusses life-work balance, the value of mentoring, and being a Black woman in SRE.
