Reliability Engineering Mindset • Alex Ewerlöf & Charity Majors • GOTO 2025

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Alex Ewerlöf - Senior Staff Engineer at Volvo Cars & Author of "Reliability Engineering Mindset" ‪@alexewerlof‬
Charity Majors - Co-Founder & CTO of honeycomb.io & Co-Author of "Observability Engineering" ‪@CharityMajors‬

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Links
https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/rem
https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/slos-ar...
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DESCRIPTION
Alex Ewerlöf, author of "Reliability Engineering Mindset" and Senior Staff Engineer at Volvo Cars, shares his serendipitous journey from product engineering to reliability engineering and discusses the practical challenges of implementing Google's SRE practices in real-world companies.

Alex emphasizes the significant gap between Google's idealized SRE approach — which he links to "a fantastic chef's recipe for Michelin-starred restaurants" — and the reality most companies face with limited resources and infrastructure. The discussion covers key topics including the evolution from traditional operations to where engineers own their code in production, the critical importance of choosing SLIs that align with business impact, and how SLOs help set expectations and help the service consumers prepare non-functional requirements. Alex coined the law of 10x per 9 highlighting that reliability isn't free and requires careful cost-benefit analysis.

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
00:51 The serendipitous path to SRE
04:31 From SRE to author
07:04 The Google SRE gap
10:24 Making Service Level Objectives (SLO) practical
19:38 The future of observability & SLOs
23:06 Swapping stories on recent reads
25:02 Outro

RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Alex Ewerlöf • Reliability Engineering Mindset • https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/rem
Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones & George Miranda • Observability Engineering • https://amzn.to/38scbma
Charity Majors & Laine Campbell • Database Reliability Engineering • https://amzn.to/3ujybdS
Alex Hidalgo • Implementing Service Level Objectives • https://amzn.to/4pbWJxw
Brian Klaas • Fluke • https://amzn.to/41V1Cko
Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson • The Elephant in the Brain • https://amzn.to/4fYCG1i
Kelly Shortridge & Aaron Rinehart • Security Chaos Engineering • https://www.verica.io/sce-book
Nora Jones & Casey Rosenthal • Chaos Engineering • https://amzn.to/3hUmuAH

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