Episode 6: Oversize Coffee Mugs, SLOs, and ML with Todd Underwood

Resilience in Action is a podcast about all things resilience, from SRE to software engineering, to how it affects our personal lives, and more. Resilience in Action is hosted by Kurt Andersen. Kurt is a practitioner and an active thought leader in the SRE community. He speaks at major DevOps & SRE conferences and publishes his work through O'Reilly in quintessential SRE books such as Seeking SRE, What is SRE?, and 97 Things Every SRE Should Know.Before joining Blameless, Kurt was a Sr. Staff SRE at LinkedIn, implementing SLOs (reliability metrics) at scale across the board for thousands of  independently deployable services. Kurt is a member of the USENIX Board of Directors and part of the steering committee for the world-wide SREcon conferences.In our sixth episode, Kurt chats with Todd Underwood, ML SRE Lead and PIT Site Lead at Google, about his work as an SRE, the challenges of implementing SLOs for traditional interactive online services, ML-based services and how to think of SLOs for them, and more.