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Mar 28, 2023 33 min

The Need for Reliability with Lex Neva

from Screaming in the Cloud Hosted by Corey Quinn

Lex Neva, Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Honeycomb and Curator of SRE Weekly, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to discuss reliability and the life of a newsletter curator. Lex shares some interesting insights on how he keeps his hobbies and side projects separate, as well as the intrusion that open-source projects can have on your time. Lex and Corey also discuss the phenomenon of newsletter curators being much more demanding of themselves than their audience typically is. Lex also shares his views on how far reliability has come, as well as how far we have to go, and the critical implications reliability has on our day-to-day lives. About Lex Lex Neva is interested in all things related to running large, massively multiuser online services. He has years of SRE, Systems Engineering, tinkering, and troubleshooting experience and perhaps loves incident response more than he ought to. He’s previously worked for Linden Lab, DeviantArt, Heroku, and Fastly, and currently works as an SRE at Honeycomb while also curating the SRE Weekly newsletter on the side. Lex lives in Massachusetts with his family including 3 adorable children, 3 ridiculous cats, and assorted other awesome humans and animals. In his copious spare time he likes to garden, play tournament poker, tinker with machine embroidery, and mess around with Arduinos. Links Referenced: SRE Weekly: https://sreweekly.com/ Honeycomb: https://www.honeycomb.io/

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