Off-Call

Off-Call is a podcast where we meet the *people* behind the pagers, hosted by Paige Cruz and sponsored by Chronosphere 📟 ❤️

Off-Call is a technology podcast hosted by Paige Cruz, with 9 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Paige Cruz hosts Off-Call, a technology show with 9 episodes published.

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  Episode #8

  SRE is Ops with Boundaries

  Dec 18, 202440 minS1

  <h3>What We Talk About</h3>Defining SRE as "Ops with Boundaries"WhatsUp GoldHas System Visibility Increased Over Time?Anti-Pattern: SRE as Keepers of ObservabilitySRE Education at the School of Hard KnocksReflecting on 15 Years of On-CallHolidays On-CallTracking and Quantifying ToilShould Engineering Managers Be On-Call???<h3>🔗 Amin's Link Roundup 🔗</h3>Connect on LinkedInCheck out his services at Certo ModoRecommended Readsmore about quantifying toil  In Defense of Time Tracking  on the Certo Modo blogThe Goal  aka spiritual predecessor to the Phoenix ProjectSend out the bat signal at sev0.helpListen to Amin's podcast Reliability Rebels <p><p>Follow Off-Call  x Paige: </p>MastodonBlueskyhttps://offcall.sim...

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  Episode #7

  Is Mobile Observability A Misnomer? Pt 2

  Dec 11, 202436 minS1

  <p>Guest: Hanson Ho, Android Architect at Embrace</p>MastodonLinkedInBlueskyBlogTwitter<p> </p><p>Recommended Resources</p>DroidconSF 2023: Combating sampling bias in productionOTel Community Day 24: OpenTelemetry for Mobile AppsO11ycast: Ep. #72, Mobile Observability with Hanson HoTest Case Scenario: Mobile App Testing Automation<br /> <p>Check out Differential Diagnosis (DDx) yourself with this self-guided demo</p> <p><p>Follow Off-Call  x Paige: </p>MastodonBlueskyhttps://offcall.simplecast.com/<p> </p><p>Check out Chronosphere at www.chronosphere.io</p></p>

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  Episode #6

  Is Mobile Observability A Misnomer? Pt 1

  Nov 29, 202439 minS1

  <p>Topics covered</p>What it’s really like being on-call for mobile appsReasons mobile teams are siloed in eng orgsWhether or not mobile observability is a misnomerHow OpenTelemetry can bridge the gap between backend and mobilePaige learns with mobile there is no rollback….only roll forward<p> </p><p>Guest: Hanson Ho, Android Architect at Embrace</p>MastodonLinkedInBlueskyBlogTwitter<p>Recommended Resources</p>DroidconSF 2023: Combating sampling bias in productionOTel Community Day 24: OpenTelemetry for Mobile AppsO11ycast: Ep. #72, Mobile Observability with Hanson HoTest Case Scenario: Mobile App Testing Automation<br /> <p> </p><p>Take a self-guided tour of Chronosphere Telemetry Pipelines .</p> <p><...

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  Episode #5

  You've Just Been Paged. Now What?

  Oct 23, 202444 minS1

  <p>Covering the challenges of managing a self-hosted observability stack and Dan’s unique on-call experiences, like troubleshooting an incident from an airplane! Later we dive into the Production Engineering initiative at HashiCorp designed to immerse software engineers in proactively exploring observability data to gain a deeper understanding of system behavior. Of course we cover the significance of understanding roles in incident management, like incident leads and scribes, and how to identify your personal style of leading incidents. <br /><br />Check out Dan's course Leading Incidents   and catch up on his Monitorama talk "No Observability Without Theory" or read the blog...

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  Episode #4

  Data, data everywhere

  Oct 1, 202437 minS1

  [00:30] Matthew's First Monitoring Tool was.....[02:08] 11 years (and counting) on-call![07:40] That Time Storing A Password In Cleartext Saved The Day[12:29] Unwinding Off Call & Signs of Burnout[17:13] Responding To A Customer's Malicious Insider Incident[19:32] What app devs need to know about monitoring databases[28:32] Has database monitoring gotten better over time?[32:15] Operating DBs in the time of Kubernetes[34:44] Wrap Up <p>Paige chats with Matthew Sanabria, Staff SRE at Cockroach Labs, about memorable moments from his 11 years on-call, the warning signs of burnout, and what developers and operators can do for each other to improve database observability for everyone!</p><p><br />Find M...

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