Slight Reliability

Stephen Townshend

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128
Episodes: 37
Transcribed: 12
Ratings: Bi-weekly
Cadence: 2022
First episode: 41K
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About Slight Reliability

Learning SRE, one day at a time.

Publisher: Stephen Townshend
Category: technology
Language: en
Explicit: No
First episode: 7 Mar 2022
Latest episode: 8 Sept 2026

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37 of 128 episodes have a transcript.

8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Farewell
Send us Fan Mail Today I announce the end of Slight Reliability after 4 1/2 years, 125 episodes, and 75 unique guests from around the world. To listen to Tales from the Humpback Sky search for "Humpback Sky" wherever you listen to pods or directly from... Buzzsprout: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2462261 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYUbPjdZs6U You can find me on: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/slightreliability.bsky.social Y...
11 Aug 2026
Becoming a Better Leader with Helen Cuddy (Episode 125)
Send us Fan Mail How do you become an effective leader that gets the best out of people (and yourself)? This week I'm joined by technology leader Helen Cuddy to cover just this! We discuss... 🪴 Getting the best out of people 🤝 Building trust 🌌 How leadership differs depending on the org size 🤯 The need for good leadership even with smart engineers 🪞 The role of belief and self-perception ...and much more. You can find Helen on... LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helencuddy/ In the episod...
14 Jul 2026
Effective Alerting with Krishna Vinnakota (Episode 124)
Send us Fan Mail How do you design, implement and evolve effective alerting of your services and systems? This week I'm joined by Krisha Vinnakota, Senior SRE @ Microsoft to dive into this topic. We cover... 👩💻 Treating your alerts like production code ✅The link between SLOs and alerting 🌡️ How do you decide what thresholds to set? 🔊 Signal to noise ratio and how to manage it 🐒 Chaos engineering and postmortems are levers to improve alerting ...and much more. You can find Krishna on... Linke...

Who has been a guest on Slight Reliability

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

Charlie Al-Batty
Amin Astaneh
Jacob Leverich
Rob Roe
Richard Bown

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YouTube views: 40,713; Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US): 4.7 / 5; 3 ratings
Spotify: 4.8 / 5; 9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 80 / 100

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Quality: 93
Social presence: 0
YouTube: 85
Engagement: 85

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