Is My Thing Reliable? Adventures in Driving Consistency of...
summary
An org builds an operational readiness checklist as a spreadsheet, runs manual reviews that take ~24 months to cover everything, then automates five checklist items via YAML metadata and collectors into a reliability data platform with checks, distributors and event-driven collectors. That platform achieves ~70% automated attestation, exposes failures and remediation steps, and spawns deeper reliability reviews for architecture, incidents and SLOs; tensions include stale manual data, attribution across repos, and governance overhead.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Reliability journey introduction
- 3:11Operational readiness checklist
- 11:39Manual to automated checks
- 21:50Reliability reviews and assessments
- 32:34Key takeaways and lessons
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