Podcast appearances and mentions of Niall Murphy

Niall Murphy, solicitor with KRW Law in Belfast, discusses the British government's decision to appeal a court ruling for a public inquiry into the murder of Sean Brown in 1997.

The guest is Amherst College senior Niall Murphy. Murphy reflects on his crucial role in leading Amherst to a national championship in 2024 and discusses the team's journey starting from their loss in the 2023 national title game. He shares insights on the competitive nature of NESCAC soccer, the significance of his leadership, and the personal milestones of overcoming injuries and adapting to new positions. Murphy also opens up about his academic path in computer science and his upcoming career in finance while balancing his passion for soccer.   Topics   00:34 Meet Niall Murphy: Amherst College Soccer Star 00:57 The Journey to the National Championship 02:16 Facing Rivals and Overcoming Challenges 03:44 Personal Reflections and Experiences 13:00 High School Days and Recruitment Challenges 19:00 Life After College Soccer 20:29 Extra Time: Fun and Unexpected Questions 26:03 Conclusion and Farewell  

A Good Start To 2025. On Saturday last leading trade union activists from across the island of Ireland came together in Newry for a packed Ireland's Future event in the Thomas Davis Hub. It was a wet winter morning and i was pleasantly uplifted by the turn out. The panel included ICTU assistant general secretary Gerry Murphy, Unison regional general secretary Patricia McKeown, Phil Ni Sheaghdha, general secretary of the Nurses and Midwives Organisation, Katie Morgan of FORSA, Greg Ennis of SIPTU and Gerry McCormack of the ICTU. It was a lively and informative debate which pointed to a much better future for workers in a united Ireland.Ireland's Future is for holding the referendums by 2030 and Saturday's public sectoral meeting is part of a consultation for what it believes is the ‘crucial five-year period' ahead of us.Niall Murphy, who is the secretary of Ireland's Future explained that it seeks “to continue to inform, educate and stimulate the conversation on constitutional change in the years preceding a referendum. The pace of change has quickened and we are firmly of a belief that a referendum will take place around the year 2030, therefore it is incumbent upon the political administrations in Dublin, Belfast and London to prepare, and it is also imperative that civil society, including the trade union movement, recognises the constitutional space we are now entering.”Let the Music Keep Your Spirits HighI am not a big watcher of television. When I have my way – which is usually when everyone else is out – the TV goes on only when there is something I want to watch. Other times it is a constant background noise. An intrusion. Like white noise.Sometimes I just like the silence. Or some good music.Alexia and I have become friends. I like to listen to music when I'm writing. So Radio Na Gaeltachta, Radio Fáilte, Lyric, Radio Ulster and RTE Radio1 are my broadcasters of choice. I also have tons of tunes on my phone. And an IPod loaded up with thousands of songs from Seamus Drumm who has the most expansive reservoir of ceol of anyone I know. My ambition is to listen to all Seamie's collection before I die. Listening to music on these various devices wraps me in a melodious comfort blanket of uplifting sounds. Sometimes I will even join in.A CeasefireThe ceasefire in Gaza is only a step in a long process. It is about justice, peace, and the right of the Palestinian people to have self determination.

In partnership with Screen Ireland, we are delighted to present Screen Sessions – a series of in-depth conversations on craft between emerging and established talent from the Irish Screen industries. In this episode, Niall Murphy and Ed Guiney reflect on Ed's career in production, which includes co-founding film and television production company, Element Pictures, 3 Oscar nominations and global success. Screen Sessions are supported by the Audience Development Fund.

Andrew Fong's take on engineering cuts through the usual role labels, urging teams to start with the problem they're solving instead of locking into rigid job titles. He sees reliability, inclusivity, and efficiency as the real drivers of good engineering. In his view, SRE is all about keeping systems reliable and healthy, while platform engineering is geared toward speed, developer enablement, and keeping costs in check. It's a values-first, practical approach to tackling tough challenges that engineers face every day.Here's a slightly deeper dive into the concepts we discussed:* Career and Evolution in Tech: Andrew shares his journey through various roles, from early SRE at Youtube to VP of Infrastructure at Dropbox to Director of Engineering at Databricks, with extensive experience in infrastructure through three distinct eras of the internet. He emphasized the transition from early infrastructure roles into specialized SRE functions, noting the rise of SRE as a formalized role and the evolution of responsibilities within it.* Building Prodvana and the Future of SRE: As CEO of startup, Prodvana, they're focused on an "intelligent delivery system" designed to simplify production management for engineers, addressing cognitive overload. They highlight SRE as a field facing new demands due to AI, discussing insights shared with Niall Murphy and Corey Bertram around AI's potential in the space, distinguishing it from "web three" hype, and affirming that while AI will transform SRE, it will not eliminate it.* Challenges of Migration and Integration: Reflecting on experiences at YouTube post-acquisition by Google, the speaker discusses the challenges of migrating YouTube's infrastructure onto Google's proprietary, non-thread-safe systems. This required extensive adaptation and “glue code,” offering insights into the intricacies and sometimes rigid culture of Google's engineering approach at that time.* SRE's Shift Toward Reliability as a Core Feature: The speaker describes how SRE has shifted from system-level automation to application reliability, with growing recognition that reliability is a user-facing feature. They emphasize that leadership buy-in and cultural support are essential for organizations to evolve beyond reactive incident response to proactive, reliability-focused SRE practices.* Organizational Culture and Leadership Influence: Leadership's role in SRE success is highlighted as crucial, with examples from Dropbox and Google emphasizing that strong, supportive leadership can shape positive, reliability-centered cultures. The speaker advises engineers to gauge leadership attitudes towards SRE during job interviews to find environments where reliability is valued over mere incident response.* Outcome-Focused Work Over Titles: Emphasis on assembling the right team based on skills, not titles, to solve technical problems effectively. Titles often distract from focusing on outcomes, and fostering a problem-solving culture over role-based thinking accelerates teamwork and results.* Engineers as Problem Solvers: Engineers, especially natural ones, generally resist job boundaries and focus on solving problems rather than sticking rigidly to job descriptions. This echoes how iconic engineers like Steve Jobs valued versatility over predefined roles.* Culture as Core Values: Organizational culture should be driven by core values like reliability, efficiency, and inclusivity rather than rigid processes or roles. For instance, Dropbox's infrastructure culture emphasized being a “force multiplier” to sustain product velocity, an approach that ensured values were integrated into every decision.* Balancing SRE and Platform Priorities: The fundamental difference between SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) and platform engineering is their focus: SRE prioritizes reliability, while platform engineering is geared toward increasing velocity or reducing costs. Leaders must be cautious when assigning both roles simultaneously, as each requires a distinct focus and expertise.* Strategic Trade-Offs in Smaller Orgs: In smaller companies with limited resources, leaders often face challenges balancing cost, reliability, and other objectives within single roles. It's advised to sequence these priorities rather than burden one individual with conflicting objectives. Prioritizing platform stability, for example, can help improve reliability in the long term.* DevOps as a Philosophy: DevOps is viewed here as an operational philosophy rather than a separate role. The approach enhances both reliability and platform functions by fostering a collaborative, efficient work culture.* Focus Investments for Long-Term Gains: Strategic technology investments, even if they might temporarily hinder short-term metrics (like reliability), can drive long-term efficiency and reliability improvements. For instance, Dropbox invested in a shared metadata system to enable active-active disaster recovery, viewing this as essential for future reliability. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit read.srepath.com

Silvia Botros (SRE Architect, Twilio | Author of "High Performance MySQL, 4th edition”) and Niall Murphy (Co-founder & CEO, Stanza) join hosts Steve McGhee and Jordan Greenberg, to discuss cultural shifts in database engineering, rate limiting, load shedding, holistic approaches to reliability, proactive measures to build customer trust, and much more!

Niall Murphy, solicitor with KRW Law in Belfast, discusses the imminent decision for the family of Sean Brown on their call for a public inquiry into his death.

Episode Notes Our guest is Niall Murphy, CEO of Stanza - a company founded by a group of experienced SREs with a vision to provide the tools, coding platform, culture and community to give any organization industry-leading reliability. Niall previously worked at Google where he co-authored the book "Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems" (2016). In this podcast episode, we discussed Niall's extensive experience including his role within an important era for Google's infrastructure transformation beginning in the late 2000s, and the wider contemporary challenges in the SRE landscape. Niall's reflections on operating distributed systems has lead him to the conclusion that there is still a profound missing gap in SRE tooling between discovering 'signals' and taking 'actions'. The conversation begins by alluding to a couple of other recent podcasts we've recorded on distributed systems in 2024, one with Mark Burgess and the other with András Gerlits. Happy listening!

Ray Connellan and Niall Murphy share their experiences of playing against Galway and Armagh this year. Subscribe for more content! The Maroon & White Pod – brought to you by Citylink. For bookings, timetables, updates and any other information, head to citylink.ie.

Niall Murphy is Oh Boland, from Tuam, Co Galway, and currently based in Dublin. They've released three albums since the band started over 10 years ago - third LP Western Leisure came out May 31. On this episode of the TPOE podcast, Niall talks through all the songs on the album, touring the US, and their journey as a band. Plus going country! Oh Boland launch Western Leisure at Bello Bar, supported by Stupid Son, on Friday, July 5. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/oh-boland-stupid-sonwestern-leisure-lp-launchbello-bar-tickets-922903117067 Buy Oh Boland - Western Leisure: https://ohboland.bandcamp.com/album/western-leisure --- Press release: Oh Boland's sound has been described as having a “rare potency”, one that exists in their live shows and two records, their 2016 debut Spilt Milk which featured in Pitchfork's “Best Underground Garage Punk Albums” of that year and its equally visceral successor, Cheap Things. Over the course of the Tuam-via-Dublin-based band's lifespan, Oh Boland has existed in several guises and their forthcoming third record heralds a compelling new phase as the solo project of founding member, Niall Murphy. The self-produced Western Leisure (mixed and mastered by Mikey Young of Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Total Control) signifies an electrifying artistic evolution spurred by Murphy's unwavering musical curiosity which hears him experiment with wistful Country motifs alongside Oh Boland's synonymous noise-rock tendencies. Written over a handful of years, many of which were spent in solitude, away from familiar recording practices and live performances, the making of this record presented Murphy with opportunities to wholeheartedly engage in musical and personal exploration. Following a shift in Oh Boland's line-up in 2018 and a period of touring, Murphy worked alone to create demos that would eventually grow into these ten simultaneously invigorating and introspective compositions. Drawing from a number of influences such as Robert Wyatt's 1974 LP Rock Bottom, Arthur Russell, and Pavement's sprawling and ambitious Wowee Zowee, Murphy describes how Western Leisure was shaped by a renewed approach and process to songwriting. “I felt unencumbered when I was writing these songs. I suppose, there's sometimes an insular nature to making music, to have the necessary headspace to write. During that time, I was alone with a lot of records, listening to some different things and found myself naturally drifting outside of the lines a little bit to what I was used to doing.” Produced by Mark Chester Recorded at Start Together, Belfast, September 2021 Mixed and Mastered by Mikey Young Words and Music by Niall Murphy Niall Murphy- Guitars, Drums, Piano, Organ, Rhodes, Steel Guitar, Vocals Ross Hamer- Bass, Vocals Artwork by Joe Casey Digitised by Aoife Anna Mullan

The PSNI had journalists they considered “troublemakers” under surveillance. It's led to the force being accused of acting like the Stasi. But who was being spied on? Why and how? Ciarán Dunbar is joined by the Belfast Telegraph's security correspondent, Allison Morris and solicitor Niall Murphy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Linda is in Pitlochry where a group of volunteers meet once a fortnight to help maintain the area's much loved and well used path network. She hears why the group were founded and about the different kinds of work they carry out.Mark is in Dunbar Harbour, marvelling at the kittiwakes and exploring a site that was once home to a fish hatchery.And not far along the coast in North Berwick, Rachel meets artist and campaigner Julie Barnes, who created what is believed to be the largest mural in the UK made entirely from marine plastic.Is spring finally here? After a very damp and dismal start to the season, Pennie Latin looks hopefully towards to the first glimpses of new life in Spring and thinks about they make us feel.The results of the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch 2024 are out! The house sparrow has topped the list once again but what do the rest of the results tell us? We find out live.Linda goes on a tour of Glasgow City Centre with Niall Murphy, director of the Glasgow City Heritage Trust. He shows her some of hidden architectural gems and tells her about how the city centre developed over the years.Plants with Purpose is a five year year initiative set up by Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to research how we could use plants to combat extreme urban weather events. Mark finds out more as he visits the rain garden area of the RBGE in Edinburgh.The fashion industry is notoriously unsustainable, and designers are working on how to improve that. Maud meets one such person, Emily Raemakers who has been experimenting with natural materials including mushrooms, algae and apple leather.And Mugdock Country Park is a popular location just north of Glasgow with woods, trails and a 13th century castle. It not only attracts families and dog walkers but TV productions and Hollywood movies. Linda meets Pam Grieve, the park's Development Officer to hear about what's involved in hosting a blockbuster film crew.

Sebastian and I continue our breakdown of notable passages from Chapter 1 of Google's Site Reliability Engineering (2016) book by Betsy Beyer, Jennifer Pettof, Niall Murphy, et al. We covered passages like: Monitoring is one of the primary means by which service owners keep track of a system's health and availability. Efficient use of resources is important anytime a service cares about money. Humans add latency, even if a given system experiences more actual failures. A system that can avoid emergencies that require human intervention will have higher availability than a system that requires hands on intervention. SRE has found that roughly, 70 percent of outages are due to changes in a live system. Best practices in this domain use automation to accomplish implementing progressive rollouts. Demand forecasting and capacity planning can be viewed as ensuring that there is sufficient capacity and redundancy to serve projected future demand, the required availability. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit srepath.substack.com

Sebastian and I got together to react to and discuss 5 passages from Chapter 1 of Google's Site Reliability Engineering book (2016) by Betsy Beyer, Jennifer Pettof, Niall Murphy, et al. We covered passages like: The sysadmin approach and the accompanying development ops split have a number of disadvantages and pitfalls Google has chosen to run our systems with a different approach. Our Site Reliability Engineering teams focus on hiring software engineers to run our products The term DevOps emerged in industry. One could equivalently view SRE as a specific implementation of DevOps with some idiosyncratic extensions. Google caps operational work for SREs at 50 percent of their time. Their remaining time should be spent using their coding skills on project work. Product development and SRE teams can enjoy a productive working relationship by eliminating the structural conflict in their respective goals. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit srepath.substack.com

On this week's episode, we finally spill the beans on where we have been. The past year we have been building our brand, CHRY PCKD, and we felt this was the perfect time to share this with you all as the numerous hours we have poured into it have taken us away from our other love - The Tilton Two. A lot has happened since we last recorded and we are joined this week by returning guests, Richard Bamber and Niall Murphy, to discuss the Rooney reign, his sacking and the unveiling of Uncle Tony Mowbray. Thank you for all of your continued support, we promise we won't be strangers again.  Please check out our brand CHRY PCKD - any support means the world to us.  Instagram: @chrypckd_ Website: www.chrypckd.com Please get in touch, and stay updated with us, via our socials: Website: www.TheTiltonTwo.com Instagram: @thetiltontwo Twitter: @thetiltontwo Facebook: @thetiltontwo YouTube: The Tilton Two Caps still available exclusively on our website - grab one now! Keep Right On!

Laura Nolan, Principal Software Engineer at Stanza, joins Corey on Screaming in the Cloud to offer insights on how to use SRE to avoid disastrous and lengthy production delays. Laura gives a rich history of her work with SREcon, why her approach to SRE is about first identifying the biggest fire instead of toiling with day-to-day issues, and why the lack of transparency in systems today actually hurts new engineers entering the space. Plus, Laura explains to Corey why she dedicates time to work against companies like Google who are building systems to help the government (inefficiently) select targets during wars and conflicts.About LauraLaura Nolan is a software engineer and SRE. She has contributed to several books on SRE, such as the Site Reliability Engineering book, Seeking SRE, and 97 Things Every SRE Should Know. Laura is a Principal Engineer at Stanza, where she is building software to help humans understand and control their production systems. Laura also serves as a member of the USENIX Association board of directors. In her copious spare time after that, she volunteers for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, and is half-way through the MSc in Human Factors and Systems Safety at Lund University. She lives in rural Ireland in a small village full of medieval ruins.Links Referenced: Company Website: https://www.stanza.systems/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/lauralifts LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-nolan-bb7429/ TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. My guest today is someone that I have been low-key annoying to come onto this show for years, and finally, I have managed to wear her down. Lauren Nolan is a Principal Software Engineer over at Stanza. At least that's what you're up to today, last I've heard. Is that right?Laura: That is correct. I'm working at Stanza, and I don't want to go on and on about my startup, but I'm working with Niall Murphy and Joseph Bironas and Matthew Girard and a bunch of other people who more recently joined us. We are trying to build a load management SaaS service. So, we're interested in service observability out of the box, knowing if your critical user journeys are good or bad out of the box, being able to prioritize your incoming requests by what's most critical in terms of visibility to your customers. So, an emerging space. Not in the Gartner Group Magic Circle yet, but I'm sure at some point [laugh].Corey: It is surreal to me to hear you talk about your day job because for, it feels like, the better part of a decade now, “Laura, Laura… oh, you mean USENIX Laura?” Because you are on the USENIX board of directors, and in my mind, that is what is always short-handed to what you do. It's, “Oh, right. I guess that isn't your actual full-time job.” It's weird. It's almost like seeing your teacher outside of the elementary school. You just figure that they fold themselves up in the closet there when you're not paying attention. I don't know what you do when SREcon is not in process. I assume you just sit there and wait for the next one, right?Laura: Well, no. We've run four of them in the last year, so there hasn't been very much waiting. I'm afraid. Everything got a little bit smooshed up together during the pandemic, so we've had a lot of events coming quite close together. But no, I do have a full-time day job. But the work I do with USENIX is just as a volunteer. So, I'm on the board of directors, as you say, and I'm on the steering committee for all of the global SREcon events, and typically is often served by the program committee as well. And I'm sort of there, annoying the chairs to, “Hey, do your thing on time,” very much like an elementary school teacher, as you say.Corey: I've been a big fan of USENIX for a while. One of the best interview processes I ever saw was closely aligned with evaluating candidates along with USENIX SAGE levels to figure out what level of seniority are they in different areas. And it was always viewed through the lens of in what types of consulting engagements will the candidate shine within, not the idea of, “Oh, are you good or are you crap? And spoiler, if I'm asking the question, I'm of course defaulting myself to goading you to crap.” Like the terrible bespoke artisanal job interview process that so many companies do. I love how this company had built this out, and I asked them about it, and, “Oh, yeah, it comes—that dates back to the USENIX SAGE things.” That was one of my first encounters with what USENIX actually did. And the more I learned, the more I liked. How long have you been involved with the group?Laura: A relatively short period of time. I think I first got involved with USENIX in around 2015, going to [Lisa 00:03:29] and then going on to SREcon. And it was all by accident, of course. I fell onto the SREcon program committee somehow because I was around. And then because I was still around and doing stuff, I got eventually—you know, got co-opted into chairing and onto the steering committee and so forth.And you know, it's like everything volunteer. I mean, people who stick around and do stuff tend to be kept around. But USENIX is quite important to me. We have an open access policy, which is something that I would like to see a whole lot more of, you know, we put everything right out there for free as soon as it is ready. And we are constantly plagued by people saying, “Hey, where's my SREcon video? The conference was like two weeks ago.” And we're like, “No, no, we're still processing the videos. We'll be there; they'll be there.”We've had people, like, literally offer to pay extra money to get the videos sooner, but [laugh] we're, like, we are open access. We are not keeping the videos away from you. We just aren't ready yet. So, I love the open access policy and I think what I like about it more than anything else is the fact that it's… we are staunchly non-vendor. We're non-technology specific and non-vendor.So, it's not, like, say, AWS re:Invent for example or any of the big cloud vendor conferences. You know, we are picking vendor-neutral content by quality. And as well, as anyone who's ever sponsored SREcon or any of the other events will also tell you that that does not get you a talk in the conference program. So, the content selection is completely independent, and in fact, we have a complete Chinese wall between the sponsorship organization and the content organization. So, I mean, I really like how we've done that.I think, as well, it's for a long time been one of the family of conferences that our organizations have conferences that has had the best diversity. Not perfect, but certainly better than it was, although very, very unfortunately, I see conference diversity everywhere going down after the pandemic, which is—particularly gender diversity—which is a real shame.Corey: I've been a fan of the SREcon conferences for a while before someone—presumably you; I'm not sure—screwed up before the pandemic and apparently thought they were talking about someone else, and I was invited to give a keynote at SREcon in EMEA that I co-presented with John Looney. Which was fun because he and I met in person for the first time three hours beforehand, beat together our talk, then showed up an hour beforehand, found there will be no confidence monitor, went away for the next 45 minutes and basically loaded it all into short term cash and gave a talk that we could not repeat if we had to for a million dollars, just because it was so… you're throwing the ball to your partner on stage and really hoping they're going to be able to catch it. And it worked out. It was an anger subtext translator skit for a bit, which was fun. All the things that your manager says but actually means, you know, the fun sort of approach. It was zany, ideally had some useful takeaways to it.But I loved the conference. That was one of the only SREcons that I found myself not surprised to discover was coming to town the next week because for whatever reason, there's presumably a mailing list that I'm not on somewhere where I get blindsided by, “Oh, yeah, hey, didn't you know SREcon is coming up?” There's probably a notice somewhere that I really should be paying attention to, but on the plus side, I get to be delightfully surprised every time.Laura: Indeed. And hopefully, you'll be delightfully surprised in March 2024. I believe it's the 18th to the 20th, when SREcon will be coming to town in San Francisco, where you live.Corey: So historically, in addition to, you know, the work with USENIX, which is, again, not your primary occupation most days, you spent over five years at Google, which of course means that you have strong opinions on SRE. I know that that is a bit dated, where the gag was always, it's only called SRE if it comes from the Mountain View region of California, otherwise it's just sparkling DevOps. But for the initial take of a lot of the SRE stuff was, “Here's how to work at Google.” It has progressed significantly beyond that to the point where companies who have SRE groups are no longer perceived incorrectly as, “Oh, we just want to be like Google,” or, “We hired a bunch of former Google people.”But you clearly have opinions to this. You've contributed to multiple books on SRE, you have spoken on it at length. You have enabled others to speak on it at length, which in many ways, is by far the better contribution. You can only go so far scaling yourself, but scaling other people, that has a much better multiplier on it, which feels almost like something an SRE might observe.Laura: It is indeed something an SRE might observe. And also, you know, good catch because I really felt you were implying there that you didn't like my book contributions. Oh, the shock.Corey: No. And to be clear, I meant [unintelligible 00:08:13], strictly to speaking.Laura: [laugh].Corey: Books are also a great one-to-many multiplier because it turns out, you can only shove so many people into a conference hall, but books have this ability to just carry your words beyond the room that you're in a way that video just doesn't seem to.Laura: Ah, but open access video that was published on YouTube, like, six weeks ahead [laugh]. That scales.Corey: I wish. People say they want to write a book and I think they're all lying. I think they want to have written the book. That's my philosophy on it. I do not understand people who've written a book. Like, “So, what are you going to do now?” “I'm going to write another book.” “Okay.” I'm going to smile, not take my eyes off you for a second and back away slowly because I do not understand your philosophy on that. But you've worked on multiple books with people.Laura: I actually enjoy writing. I enjoy the process of it because I always learn something when I write. In fact, I learn a lot of things when I write, and I enjoy that crafting. I will say I do not enjoy having written things because for me, any achievement once I have achieved it is completely dead. I will never think of it again, and I will think only of my excessively lengthy-to do list, so I clearly have problems here. But nevertheless. It's exactly the same with programming projects, by the way. But back to SRE we were talking about SRE. SRE is 20 now. SRE can almost drink alcohol in the US, and that is crazy.Corey: So, 2003 was the founding of it, then.Laura: Yes.Corey: Yay, I can do simple arithmetic in my head, still. I wondered how far my math skills had atrophied.Laura: Yes. Good job. Yes, apparently invented in roughly 2003. So, the—I mean, from what I understand Google's publishing of the, “20 years of SRE at Google,” they have, in the absence of an actual definite start date, they've simply picked. Ben Treynor's start date at Google as the start date of SRE.But nevertheless, [unintelligible 00:09:58] about 20 years old. So, is it all grown up? I mean, I think it's become heavily commodified. My feeling about SRE is that it's always been this—I mean, you said it earlier, like, it's about, you know, how do I scale things? How do I optimize my systems? How do I intervene in systems to solve problems to make them better, to see where we're going to be in pain and six months, and work to prevent that?That's kind of SRE work to me is, figure out where the problems are, figure out good ways to intervene and to improve. But there's a lot of SRE as bureaucracy around at the moment where people are like, “Well, we're an SRE team, so you know, you will have your SLO Golden Signals, and you will have your Production Readiness Checklists, which will be the things that we say, no matter how different your system is from what we designed this checklist for, and that's it. We're doing SRE now. It's great.” So, I think we miss a lot there.My personal way of doing SRE is very much more about thinking, not so much about the day-to-day SLO [excursion-type 00:10:56] things because—not that they're not important; they are important, but they will always be there. I always tend to spend more time thinking about how do we avoid the risk of, you know, a giant production fire that will take you down for days, or God forbid, more than days, you know? The sort of, big Roblox fire or the time that Meta nearly took down the internet in late-2021, that kind of thing. So, I think that modern SRE misses quite a lot of that. It's a little bit like… so when BP, when they had the Deepwater Horizon disaster on that very same day, they received an award for minimizing occupational safety risks in their environment. So, you know, [unintelligible 00:11:41] things like people tripping and—Corey: Must have been fun the next day. “Yeah, we're going to need that back.”Laura: [laugh] people tripping and falling, and you know, hitting themselves with a hammer, they got an award because it was so safe, they had very little of that. And then this thing goes boom.Corey: And now they've tried to pivot into an optimization award for efficiency, like, we just decided to flash fry half the sea life in the Gulf at once.Laura: Yes. Extremely efficient. So, you know, I worry that we're doing SRE a little bit like BP. We're doing it back before Deepwater Horizon.Corey: I should disclose that I started my technical career as a grumpy old Unix sysadmin—because it's not like you ever see one of those who's happy or young; didn't matter that I was 23 years old, I was grumpy and old—and I have viewed the evolution since then have going from calling myself a sysadmin to a DevOps engineer to an SRE to a platform engineer to whatever we're calling it this week, I still view it as fundamentally the same job, in the sense that the responsibility has not changed, and that is keep the site or environment up. But the tools, the processes and the techniques we apply to it have evolved. Is that accurate? Does it sound like I'm spouting nonsense? You're far closer to the SRE world than I ever was, but I'm curious to get your take on that perspective. And please feel free to tell me I'm wrong.Laura: No, no. I think you're completely right. And I think one of the ways that I think is shifted, and it's really interesting, but when you and I were, when we were young, we could see everything that was happening. We were deploying on some sort of Linux box or other sort of Unix box somewhere, most likely, and if we wanted, we could go and see the entire source code of everything that our software was running on. And kids these days, they're coming up, and they are deploying their stuff on RDS and ECS and, you know, how many layers of abstraction are sitting between them and—Corey: “I run Kubernetes. That means I don't know where it runs, and neither does anyone else.” It's great.Laura: Yeah. So, there's no transparency anymore in what's happening. So, it's very easy, you get to a point where sometimes you hit a problem, and you just can't figure it out because you do not have a way to get into that system and see what's happening. You know, even at work, we ran into a problem with Amazon-hosted Prometheus. We were like, “This will be great. We'll just do that.” And we could not get some particular type of remote write operation to work. We just could not. Okay, so we'll have to do something else.So, one of the many, many things I do when I'm not, you know, trying to run the SREcon conference or do actual work or definitely not write a book, I'm studying at Lund University at the moment. I'm doing this master's degree in human factors and system safety. And one of the things I've realized since doing that program is, in tech, we missed this whole 1980s and 1990s discipline of cognitive systems theory, cognitive systems engineering. This is what people were doing. They were like, how can people in the control room in nuclear plants and in the cockpit in the airplane, how can they get along with their systems and build a good mental model of the automation and understand what's going on?We missed all that. We came of age when safety science was asking questions like how can we stop organizational failures like Challenger and Columbia, where people are just not making the correct decisions? And that was a whole different sort of focus. So, we've missed all of this 1980s and 1990s cognitive system stuff. And there's this really interesting idea there where you can build two types of systems: you can build a prosthesis which does all your interaction with a system for you, and you can see nothing, feel nothing, do nothing, it's just this black box, or you can have an amplifier, which lets you do more stuff than you could do just by yourself, but lets you still get into the details.And we build mostly prostheses. We do not build amplifiers. We're hiding all the details; we're building these very, very opaque abstractions. And I think it's to the detriment of—I mean, it makes our life harder in a bunch of ways, but I think it also makes life really hard for systems engineers coming up because they just can't get into the systems as easily anymore unless they're running them themselves.Corey: I have to confess that I have a certain aversion to aspects of SRE, and I'm feeling echoes of it around a lot of the human factor stuff that's coming out of that Lund program. And I think I know what it is, and it's not a problem with either of those things, but rather a problem with me. I have never been a good academic. I have an eighth grade education because school is not really for me. And what I loved about being a systems administrator for years was the fact that it was like solving puzzles every day.I got to do interesting things, I got to chase down problems, and firefight all the time. And what SRE is represented is a step away from that to being more methodical, to taking on keeping the site up as a discipline rather than an occupation or a task that you're working on. And I think that a lot of the human factors stuff plays directly into it. It feels like the field is becoming a lot more academic, which is a luxury we never had, when holy crap, the site is down, we're going to go out of business if it isn't back up immediately: panic mode.Laura: I got to confess here, I have three master's degrees. Three. I have problems, like I said before. I got what you mean. You don't like when people are speaking in generalizations and sort of being all theoretical rather than looking at the actual messy details that we need to deal with to get things done, right? I know. I know what you mean, I feel it too.And I've talked about the human factors stuff and theoretical stuff a fair bit at conferences, and what I always try to do is I always try and illustrate with the details. Because I think it's very easy to get away from the actual problems and, you know, spend too much time in the models and in the theory. And I like to do both. I will confess, I like to do both. And that means that the luxury I miss out on is mostly sleep. But here we are.Corey: I am curious as far as what you've seen as far as the human factors adoption in this space because every company for a while claimed to be focused on blameless postmortems. But then there would be issues that quickly turned into a blame Steve postmortem instead. And it really feels, at least from a certain point of view, that there was a time where it seemed to be gaining traction, but that may have been a zero interest rate phenomenon, as weird as that sounds. Do you think that the idea of human factors being tied to keeping systems running in a computer sense has demonstrated staying power or are you seeing a recession? It could be I'm just looking at headlines too much.Laura: It's a good question. There's still a lot of people interested in it. There was a conference in Denver last February that was decently well attended for, you know, a first initial conference that was focusing on this issue, and this very vibrant Slack community, the LFI and the Learning from Incidents in Software community. I will say, everything is a little bit stretched at the moment in industry, as you know, with all the layoffs, and a lot of people are just… there's definitely a feeling that people want to hunker down and do the basics to make sure that they're not seen as doing useless stuff and on the line for layoffs.But the question is, is this stuff actually useful or not? I mean, I contend that it is. I contend that we can learn from failures, we can learn from what we're doing day-to-day, and we can do things better. Sometimes you don't need a lot of learning because what's the biggest problem is obvious, right [laugh]? You know, in that case, yeah, your focus should just be on solving your big obvious problem, for sure.Corey: If there was a hierarchy of needs here, on some level, okay, step one, is the building—Laura: Yes.Corey: Currently on fire? Maybe solve that before thinking about the longer-term context of what this does to corporate culture.Laura: Yes, absolutely. And I've gone into teams before where people are like, “Oh, well, you're an SRE, so obviously, you wish to immediately introduce SLOs.” And I can look around and go, “Nope. Not the biggest problem right now. Actually, I can see a bunch of things are on fire. We should fix those specific things.”I actually personally think that if you want to go in and start improving reliability in a system, the best thing to do is to start a weekly production meeting if the team doesn't have that, actually create a dedicated space and time for everyone to be able to get together, discuss what's been happening, discuss concerns and risks, and get all that stuff out in the open. I think that's very useful, and you don't need to spend however long it takes to formally sit down and start creating a bunch of SLOs. Because if you're not dealing with a perfectly spherical web service where you can just use the Golden Signals and if you start getting into any sorts of thinking about data integrity, or backups, or any sorts of asynchronous processing, these sorts of things, they need SLOs that are a lot more interesting than your standard error rate and latency. Error rate and latency gets you so far, but it's really just very cookie-cutter stuff. But people know what's wrong with their systems, by and large. They may not know everything that's wrong with their systems, but they'll know the big things, for sure. Give them space to talk about it.Corey: Speaking of bigger things and turning into the idea of these things escaping beyond pure tech, you have been doing some rather interesting work in an area that I don't see a whole lot of people that I talked to communicating about. Specifically, you're volunteering for the campaign to stop killer robots, which ten years ago would have made you sound ridiculous, and now it makes you sound like someone who is very rationally and reasonably calling an alarm on something that is on our doorstep. What are you doing over there?Laura: Well, I mean, let's be real, it sounds ridiculous because it is ridiculous. I mean, who would let a computer fly around to the sky and choose what to shoot at? But it turns out that there are, in fact, a bunch of people who are building systems like that. So yeah, I've been volunteering with the campaign for about the last five years, since roughly around the time that I left Google, in fact, because I got interested in that around about the time that Google was doing the Project Maven work, which was when Google said, “Hey, wouldn't it be super cool if we took all of this DoD video footage of drone video footage, and, you know, did a whole bunch of machine-learning analysis on it and figured out where people are going all the time? Maybe we could click on this house and see, like, a whole timeline of people's comings and goings and which other people they are sort of in a social network with.”So, I kind of said, “Ahh… maybe I don't want to be involved in that.” And I left Google. And I found out that there was this campaign. And this campaign was largely lawyers and disarmament experts, people of that nature—philosophers—but also a few technologists. And for me, having run computer systems for a large number of years at this point, the idea that you would want to rely on a big distributed system running over some janky network with a bunch of 18-year-old kids running it to actually make good decisions about who should be targeted in a conflict seems outrageous.And I think almost every [laugh] software operations person, or in fact, software engineer that I've spoken to, tends to feel the same way. And yet there is this big practical debate about this in international relations circles. But luckily, there has just been a resolution in the UN just in the last day or two as we record this, the first committee has, by a very large majority, voted to try and do something about this. So hopefully, we'll get some international law. The specific interventions that most of us in this field think would be good would be to limit the amount of force that autonomous weapon, or in fact, an entire set of autonomous weapons in a region would be able to wield because there's a concern that should there be some bug or problem or a sort of weird factor that triggers these systems to—Corey: It's an inevitability that there will be. Like, that is not up for debate. Of course, it's going to break in 2020, the template slide deck that AWS sent out for re:Invent speakers had a bunch of clip art, and one of them was a line art drawing of a ham with a bone in it. So, I wound up taking that image, slapping it on a t-shirt, captioning it “AWS Hambone,” and selling that as a fundraiser for 826 National.Laura: [laugh].Corey: Now, what happened next is that for a while, anyone who tweeted the phrase “AWS Hambone” would find themselves banned from Twitter for the next 12 hours due to some weird algorithmic thing where it thought that was doxxing or harassment or something. And people on the other side of the issue that you're talking about are straight face-idly suggesting that we give that algorithm [unintelligible 00:24:32] tool a gun.Laura: Or many guns. Many guns.Corey: I'm sorry, what?Laura: Absolutely.Corey: Yes, or missiles or, heck, let's build a whole bunch of them and turn them loose with no supervision, just like we do with junior developers.Laura: Exactly. Yes, so many people think this is a great idea, or at least they purport to think this is a great idea, which is not always the same thing. I mean, there's lots of different vested interests here. Some people who are proponents of this will say, well, actually, we think that this will make targeting more accurate, less civilians will actually will die as a result of this. And the question there that you have to ask is—there's a really good book called Drone by Chamayou, Grégoire Chamayou, and he says that there's actually three meanings to accuracy.So, are you hitting what you're aiming at is one of it—one thing. And that's a solved problem in military circles for quite some time. You got, you know, laser targeting, very accurate. Then the other question is, how big is the blast radius? So, that's just a matter of, you know, how big an explosion are you going to get? That's not something that autonomy can help with.The only thing that autonomy could even conceivably help with in terms of accuracy is better target selection. So, instead of selecting targets that are not valid targets, selecting more valid targets. But I don't think there's any good reason to think that computers can solve that problem. I mean, in fact, if you read stuff that military experts write on this, and I've got, you know, lots of academic handbooks on military targeting processes, they will tell you, it's very hard and there's a lot of gray areas, a lot of judgment. And that's exactly what computers are pretty bad at. Although mind you, I'm amused by your Hambone story and I want to ask if AWS Hambone is a database?Corey: Anything is a database, if you hold it wrong.Laura: [laugh].Corey: It's fun. I went through a period of time where, just for fun, I would ask people to name an AWS service and I would talk about how you could use it incorrectly as a database. And then someone mentioned, “What about AWS Neptune,” which is their graph database, which absolutely no one understands, and the answer there is, “I give up. It's impossible to use that thing as a database.” But everything else can be. Like, you know, the tagging system. Great, that has keys and values; it's a database now. Welcome aboard. And I didn't say it was a great database, but it is a free one, and it scales to a point. Have fun with it.Laura: All I'll say is this: you can put labels on anything.Corey: Exactly.Laura: We missed you at the most recent SREcon EMEA. There was a talk about Google's internal Chubby system and how people started using it as a database. And I did summon you in Slack, but you didn't show up.Corey: No. Sadly, I've gotten a bit out of the SRE space. And also, frankly, I've gotten out of the community space for a little while, when it comes to conferences. And I have a focused effort at the start of 2024 to start changing that. I am submitting CFPs left and right.My biggest fear is that a conference will accept one of these because a couple of them are aspirational. “Here's how I built the thing with generative AI,” which spoiler, I have done no such thing yet, but by God, I will by the time I get there. I have something similar around Kubernetes, which I've never used in anger, but soon will if someone accepts the right conference talk. This is how I learned Git: I shot my mouth off in a CFP, and I had four months to learn the thing. It was effective, but I wouldn't say it was the best approach.Laura: [laugh]. You shouldn't feel bad about lying about having built things in Kubernetes, and with LLMs because everyone has, right?Corey: Exactly. It'll be true enough by the time I get there. Why not? I'm not submitting for a conference next week. We're good. Yeah, Future Corey is going to hate me.Laura: Have it build you a database system.Corey: I like that. I really want to thank you for taking the time to speak with me today. If people want to learn more, where's the best place for them to find you these days?Laura: Ohh, I'm sort of homeless on social media since the whole Twitter implosion, but you can still find me there. I'm @lauralifts on Twitter and I have the same tag on BlueSky, but haven't started to use it yet. Yeah, socials are hard at the moment. I'm on LinkedIn. Please feel free to follow me there if you wish to message me as well.Corey: And we will, of course, put links to that in the [show notes 00:28:31]. Thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me. I appreciate it.Laura: Thank you for having me.Corey: Laura Nolan, Principal Software Engineer at Stanza. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn, and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, along with an angry, insulting comment that soon—due to me screwing up a database system—will be transmogrified into a CFP submission for an upcoming SREcon.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business, and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.

Four athletes from Ennis will have the honour of representing Ireland at the upcoming European Cross Country Championships. Dean Casey, Kevin Mulcaire, Oisin Spillane & Niall Murphy are on their way to Belgium! To find out more, on Thursday's Morning Focus, Alan Morrissey spoke with Ennis athlete, Oisin Spillane and Rory Chesser, Chairman of Ennis Track Athletic Club. Photo (c) by ben-bryant from Getty Images via Canva

Four Ennis track athletes will be representing Ireland at the European Cross Country Championships in Brussels this wekend. Niall Murphy will compete in the Men's U20 7000M, while clubmates Oisín Spillane and Dean Casey will take part in the equivalent U-23 race. Clarecastle native Kevin Mulcaire meanwhile will represent the county in the flagship Men's 9000m event. The Clare contingent already boast an array of silverware at both National and International level and Ennis Track Chairperson , Roy Chesser is confident of bringing back gold to the banner.

Champion Chatter - Season 02 Episode 46 0:00-5:20 - Intro5:20-27:46 - Munster Final despair for both Clonlara and Corofin is central to the discussion as Eoin and James are joined by regular analysts Ger O'Connell and Kevin McNamara to pour over the weekend's hurling action and look ahead to 2024; 27:46-58.34 -St Joseph's Doora/Barefield's All-Ireland Junior Club Camogie Semi-Final exit, Corofin's Munster Intermediate Hurling Final reverse, Feakle/Killanena's U-21A hurling triumph and a new Clare Cup Soccer Prediction Competition sponsored by Donovan Sports are all topics for discussion with freelance reporter Derek Dormer; 58:34-1.27:12 - An unprecedented weekend for Ennis Track is imminent as four Clare athletes (Dean Casey, Kevin Mulcaire, Oisin Spillane and Niall Murphy) represent Ireland in the European Cross Country Championships in Brussels. Ennis Track Chairman Rory Chesser and the afoenemtuonded Niall Murphy join the lads in studio to look ahead to this much anticipated event; 1.27:12-1.40:41 - A major weekend of Munster action awaits for four Clare soccer clubs as Newmarket Celtic, Avenue United, Fair Green Celtic and Manus Celtic are in knock-out action in three separate competitions. CDSL PRO Dean Russell takes a break from his Santa deliveries to preview those ties along with reflecting on a dramatic weekend of domestic action; 1.40:41-1.52:14 - U-21A and B Football Finals along with the Under 16 equivalents are on the agenda as football analyst Kieran Madigan looked back on Clarecastle's minimum victory over Western Gaels while the Kings of the North bragging rights are back up for grabs in the U-21A decider between Ennistymon and St Breckan's; 1.52:14 - Round Up of National Cross Country Novices/Underage Championships in Navan, U-21A Football Final and Rugby Fixtures/Results.

We speak to the solicitor for the family of Sean Brown, Niall Murphy from KRW Law in Belfast.

In this episode of "Let's Talk Resale," we dive into the future of item digitization, where every product will have its own digital identity. Joined by industry leaders, we'll discuss how brands are navigating this new terrain, especially in light of emerging initiatives like the EU's digital product passports. This isn't just about meeting new standards; it's about leveraging this dual physical-digital nature, much as products like Tesla and iPhone do, to maximize customer engagement and opportunities. Tune in for practical insights and strategies every brand executive should consider.In this episode of "Let's Talk Resale," we delve into the future of item digitization, envisioning a realm where each product possesses its own distinct digital identity. Industry leaders join us to navigate this quickly emerging new terrain. Niall Murphy, Founder EvrythngLindsey Hermes, Avery DennisonDr. Daniela Ott, Secretary General Aura BlockchainNatasha Franck, Founder and CEO of EONGayle Tait, CEO of TroveWe explore how brands are adapting to this digital revolution, especially with the emergence of initiatives such as the EU's digital product passports.This is far beyond merely meeting new standards; it's about harnessing the power of this dual physical-digital essence, akin to renowned products like Tesla and iPhones, to optimize customer engagement and unearth opportunities. Tune in for invaluable insights and practical strategies that every brand executive should consider.

Episode 24.  The second half of the conversation with Séamus Finneran about his adventures in music promotion. Discussion includes the merchant navy, getting a resident visa in Australia, setting up a tour, Seamus Eagan - Sufferin' Gales, Willie Creedan, Martin Hayes, Michael Flatley,  Helen Bommarito, Davy Spillane, San Francisco Celtic Festival, Eddie Stack, Peter O'Neill, The Plough & Stars, Randall Bays,  Port Fairy Folk Festival, The Brunswick Music Festival, The National Celtic Festival, The National Folk Festival, setting up a tour from the opposite side of the planet,  Green Linnet Records, the importance of reflecting after booking a tour, Eilish O'Connor, Kieran Halpin, Jackie Daley, Maura O'Keefe, The Three Weeds venue Sydney, Dennis Cahill, The Guinness Tour, John Nicholls, Donal Lunny, Sharon Shannon, Altan, Mary Black, The Irish Echo paper, promoting gigs, hiring publicists, booking a tour, booking jazz clubs, The Basement Sydney, Lúnasa, being the inspiration for putting Lúnasa together, booking their first gig which was headlining a festival, Trevor Hutchinson, Donogh Hennessey, Blue Mountains Folk Festival, Bob Charter, Gaynor Crawford,  Jaslyn Hall, The World Music Show, Triple J station, Sydney Morning Herald, Seamus Begley, Jim Murray, John Dunford, Fergus Lenahan, Sydney Recital Hall, The Masters Of Tradition, Dave Power, Steve Cooney, Máirtín O'Connor, Cathal Hayden, Seamie O'Dowd, selling out the Sydney Opera House twice, Jim Murray, Jack Maher, Maureen, Canice Mills, Alan Connor, Paul Brady, Shooglenifty, Andy M. Stewart, Gerry O'Beirne, Breaking Trad, Donall Murphy, Niall Murphy, Mike Gavin, The Rambling Boys, Sean Smith, David Munnelly, Alan Burke, Gino Lupari, Capercaillie, Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson, Dick Gaughan, Mary Coughlan, Balfa Toujours, Paul Kelly, The Lyric Theatre Sydney, Bruce Giles, Chris Richards, Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald,  Paul Brady and his most emotional concert, Crowded House, Seabill Hotel, Neil Finn, Mary Coughlan, James Delaney, Big Pond's foray into streaming, Monday, Clare O'Meara, Paddy Keenan, Sean Tyrrell, Susan O'Neill, Mick Flannery, The Landsdowne Club, Shooglenifty and more!

Episode 23.  A conversation with Séamus Finneran about his adventures in music promotion. Discussion includes the merchant navy, getting a resident visa in Australia, setting up a tour, Seamus Eagan - Sufferin' Gales, Willie Creedan, Martin Hayes, Michael Flatley,  Helen Bommarito, Davy Spillane, San Francisco Celtic Festival, Eddie Stack, Peter O'Neill, The Plough & Stars, Randall Bays,  Port Fairy Folk Festival, The Brunswick Music Festival, The National Celtic Festival, The National Folk Festival, setting up a tour from the opposite side of the planet,  Green Linnet Records, the importance of reflecting after booking a tour, Eilish O'Connor, Kieran Halpin, Jackie Daley, Maura O'Keefe, The Three Weeds venue Sydney, Dennis Cahill, The Guinness Tour, John Nicholls, Donal Lunny, Sharon Shannon, Altan, Mary Black, The Irish Echo paper, promoting gigs, hiring publicists, booking a tour, booking jazz clubs, The Basement Sydney, Lúnasa, being the inspiration for putting Lúnasa together, booking their first gig which was headlining a festival, Trevor Hutchinson, Donogh Hennessey, Blue Mountains Folk Festival, Bob Charter, Gaynor Crawford,  Jaslyn Hall, The World Music Show, Triple J station, Sydney Morning Herald, Seamus Begley, Jim Murray, John Dunford, Fergus Lenahan, Sydney Recital Hall, The Masters Of Tradition, Dave Power, Steve Cooney, Máirtín O'Connor, Cathal Hayden, Seamie O'Dowd, selling out the Sydney Opera House twice, Jim Murray, Jack Maher, Maureen, Canice Mills, Alan Connor, Paul Brady, Shooglenifty, Andy M. Stewart, Gerry O'Beirne, Breaking Trad, Donall Murphy, Niall Murphy, Mike Gavin, The Rambling Boys, Sean Smith, David Munnelly, Alan Burke, Gino Lupari, Capercaillie, Martin Carthy, Norma Waterson, Dick Gaughan, Mary Coughlan, Balfa Toujours, Paul Kelly, The Lyric Theatre Sydney, Bruce Giles, Chris Richards, Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald,  Paul Brady and his most emotional concert, Crowded House, Seabill Hotel, Neil Finn, Mary Coughlan, James Delaney, Big Pond's foray into streaming, Monday, Clare O'Meara, Paddy Keenan, Sean Tyrrell, Susan O'Neill, Mick Flannery, The Landsdowne Club, Shooglenifty and more!

Incident management is the process of managing and resolving unexpected disruptions or issues in software systems, especially those that are customer-facing or critical to business operations. Implementing a robust incident management system is often a key challenge in technical environments. Rootly is a platform to handle incident management directly from Slack, and is used by The post Cross-functional Incident Management with Ashley Sawatsky and Niall Murphy appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Incident management is the process of managing and resolving unexpected disruptions or issues in software systems, especially those that are customer-facing or critical to business operations. Implementing a robust incident management system is often a key challenge in technical environments. Rootly is a platform to handle incident management directly from Slack, and is used by The post Cross-functional Incident Management with Ashley Sawatsky and Niall Murphy appeared first on Software Engineering Daily.

Nadine Doherty and Aoife Murray are here to chat Ladies Football and camogie; Greg Allen and Doug Ferguson on the US Open & Sligo senior football captain Niall Murphy chats to us ahead of his game against Dublin on Sunday! Game On.

René is a Principal Cloud Solution Architect - Engineering (CSA-E) and technical lead for Azure DevOps and software development processes at Microsoft in Germany. In his role as CE, he helps customers adopt good development practices and processes as well as understanding the principles of DevOps. As an Azure DevOps expert, René trains customers in using the DevOps toolchain and shows ways to integrate Azure DevOps into existing heterogeneous environments.   Before his start at Microsoft in late 2008, René had been working as a developer of enterprise logistic systems for almost ten years.   Topics of Discussion: [3:05] René's start of his career and how he got into programming. [5:20] How does René define the real difference between the 1990s waterfall mindset and the agile mindset, just from a process perspective? [7:49] How DevOps is an evolution of Agile. [9:13] What is DevOps all about? [11:29] The three ways of DevOps as described in The Phoenix Project: Maximize flow or system thinking. Amplify feedback loops. The culture of continuous experimentation and learning. [16:52] The importance of creating a natural cadence in your iteration. [17:16] What's the best way to standardize across different teams? [21:13] Choosing the right tool at the right point in time. [24:10] What type of test automation does René find himself recommending? [27:50] To René, the most important thing is to get your code right. In addition, unit testing also has a very positive impact on your architecture and design because you're building a testable product. [28:50] What is Rene's view on open telemetry in a DevOps mindset?   Mentioned in this Episode: Clear Measure Way Architect Forum Software Engineer Forum Programming with Palermo — New Video Podcast! Email us programming@palermo.network Clear Measure, Inc. (Sponsor) .NET DevOps for Azure: A Developer's Guide to DevOps Architecture the Right Way, by Jeffrey Palermo — Available on Amazon! Jeffrey Palermo's Twitter — Follow to stay informed about future events! Architect Tips — Video podcast! Azure DevOps .NET Clear Measure Architect Forum The Phoenix Project book: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, and George Spafford Test-driven development: By Example, by Kent Beck Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data, by Gene Kim The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, by Frederick Brooks Jr. The Art of Unit Testing: With examples in JavaScript, by Roy Osherove Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, by Jennifer Petoff, Niall Murphy, Betsy Beyer, and Chris Jones   Want to Learn More? Visit AzureDevOps.Show for show notes and additional episodes.

On this week's Sky Fantasy Football Podcast James is joined by Niall Murphy, one of the great Sky Fantasy managers historically and currently ranked 16th overall. There's discussion on how Niall's done so well historically and if he believes he ca go on and claim first place and the £50,000 prize. Plus, further discussion on buying Erling Haaland, why James is considering Solly March as alternative (it might make sense), Bruno Fernandes appeals as an addition to Marcus Rashford, there's an update on what the additionally announced May TV picks means and Wilfried Zaha's name comes up again... On Planet FPL tomorrow: Planet FPL s6 ep40 with guest host @UtterlyTC Follow Niall on Twitter: (2) Niall Murphy (@Niiaall) / Twitter On Patreon today it's Tot&Ham with @FPL2Guys1Cup For the full schedule of content for this week view this post 

On this week's episode, The Tilton Two introduce the 2 new members to the Tilton Two family, Richard Bamber and Niall Murphy. Together, we discuss the ownership issues, where the season has gone wrong and thoughts on John Eustace - Is he the man to take us forward or has his time come to an end? Listen in to the episode to hear our opinions! Please get in touch, and stay updated with us, via our socials; Website: www.thetiltontwo.com Instagram: @thetiltontwo Twitter: @thetiltontwo Facebook: @thetiltontwo Youtube: The Tilton Two Keep Right On! 

Day 2 of Trimble Dimensions did NOT disappoint! Check out these unscripted educational and entertaining interviews! 01:00 Rupert Lee, Land Surveyor from Queensland, Australia 15:27 Jordan McRae, CEO & Founder at MOBILUS Labs 33:12 Michelle Blicavs, Chief Executive Officer at Association of Consulting Surveyors NSW 56:30 Niall Murphy, CEO at Murphy Geospatial Group and Kai Duebbert, CEO & Founder at Kompass BMS  

MLOps Coffee Sessions #127 with Niall Murphy & Todd Underwood, Reliable ML co-hosted by David Aponte. // Abstract By applying an SRE mindset to machine learning, authors and engineering professionals Cathy Chen, Kranti Parisa, Niall Richard Murphy, D. Sculley, Todd Underwood, and featured guest authors show you how to run an efficient and reliable ML system. Whether you want to increase revenue, optimize decision-making, solve problems, or understand and influence customer behavior, you'll learn how to perform day-to-day ML tasks while keeping the bigger picture in mind. (Book description from O'Reilly) MLOps Coffee Sessions #127 with Niall Murphy & Todd Underwood, Reliable ML co-hosted by David Aponte. // Abstract By applying an SRE mindset to machine learning, authors and engineering professionals Cathy Chen, Kranti Parisa, Niall Richard Murphy, D. Sculley, Todd Underwood, and featured guest authors show you how to run an efficient and reliable ML system. Whether you want to increase revenue, optimize decision-making, solve problems, or understand and influence customer behavior, you'll learn how to perform day-to-day ML tasks while keeping the bigger picture in mind. (Book description from O'Reilly) It was great that they wrote this book in the first place in a space that's new and lots of people are entering it with a lot of questions and this book clarifies those questions. It was also great to have all of their experiences documented in this one book and there's a lot of value in putting them all in one place so that people can benefit from it. // Bio Niall Murphy Niall has been interested in Internet infrastructure since the mid-1990s. He has worked with all of the major cloud providers from their Dublin, Ireland offices - most recently at Microsoft, where he was the global head of Azure Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). His books have sold approximately a quarter of a million copies worldwide, most notably the award-winning Site Reliability Engineering, and he is probably one of the few people in the world to hold degrees in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Poetry Studies. He lives in Dublin, Ireland, with his wife and two children. Todd Underwood Todd is a Director at Google and leads Machine Learning for Site Reliability Engineering Director. He is also the Site Lead for Google's Pittsburgh office. ML SRE teams build and scale internal and external ML services and are critical to almost every Product Area at Google. Before working at Google, Todd held a variety of roles at Renesys. He was in charge of operations, security, and peering for Renesys's Internet intelligence services which are now part of Oracle's Cloud service. He also did product work for some early social products that Renesys worked on. Before that Todd was the Chief Technology Officer of Oso Grande, an independent Internet service provider (AS2901) in New Mexico. // MLOps Jobs board https://mlops.pallet.xyz/jobs // MLOps Swag/Merch https://mlops-community.myshopify.com/ // Related Links Reliable Machine Learning book by Cathy Chen, Niall Richard Murphy, Kranti Parisa, D. Sculley, Todd Underwood: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/reliable-machine-learning/9781098106218/ --------------- ✌️Connect With Us ✌️ ------------- Join our slack community: https://go.mlops.community/slack Follow us on Twitter: @mlopscommunity Sign up for the next meetup: https://go.mlops.community/register Catch all episodes, blogs, newsletters, and more: https://mlops.community/ Connect with Niall on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/niallm/ Connect with Todd on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toddunder/

It seems like only yesterday we started talking about the Site Reliability Engineer, and their place in the IT ecosystem. Over the last several years, the role of the SRE has changed—and it's bound to continue changing. On this episode of the Hedge, Niall Murphy joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the changing role of the SRE, and what the SRE could be.

It seems like only yesterday we started talking about the Site Reliability Engineer, and their place in the IT ecosystem. Over the last several years, the role of the SRE has changed—and it's bound to continue changing. On this episode of the Hedge, Niall Murphy joins Tom Ammon and Russ White to discuss the changing role of the SRE, and what the SRE could be.

In episode 4 of Getting There, Nora Jones and Niall Murphy discuss the Atlassian outage of April 2022. This talk explores Atlassian's 20-year history, key takeaways from this 14-day outage, surprising findings from the incident report, and critical discussion of Atlassian's response.

In episode 4 of Getting There, Nora Jones and Niall Murphy discuss the Atlassian outage of April 2022. This talk explores Atlassian's 20-year history, key takeaways from this 14-day outage, surprising findings from the incident report, and critical discussion of Atlassian's response.

In episode 3 of Getting There, Nora Jones and Niall Murphy unpack the Roblox outage of October 2021. Together they review the incident report, discuss the contributing factors and the users affected, and examine the attributes of Roblox's business model that led to this 73-hour outage.

In episode 3 of Getting There, Nora Jones and Niall Murphy unpack the Roblox outage of October 2021. Together they review the incident report, discuss the contributing factors and the users affected, and examine the attributes of Roblox's business model that led to this 73-hour outage.

In episode 3 of Getting There, Nora Jones and Niall Murphy unpack the Roblox outage of October 2021. Together they review the incident report, discuss the contributing factors and the users affected, and examine the attributes of Roblox's business model that led to this 73-hour outage.

This week's episode marks the return of our favourite segment, "The Tilton Two with a Blue". We are joined by Niall Murphy, a Bluenose who we had the pleasure of meeting through this very podcast and have gone on to build a friendship stemming from our mutual love of the Blues. As is tradition, we throw Niall in at the deep end with a quick fire round of questions before discussing what has been a season full of highs and lows! On top of all this, we round up the latest news from around the club... it has been a quiet one! We would like to say a massive thank you to Niall and we hope you enjoyed our discussion as much as we did! If you would like to a guest on the podcast and be part of "The Tilton Two with a Blue", please reach out to us directly via our socials; Instagram: @thetiltontwo Twitter: @thetiltontwo Facebook: @thetiltontwo YouTube: The Tilton Two Shout out to our guest Niall Murphy, head over to his instagram and give him a follow:  @nigeeeeeeeee Keep Right On!  

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Keith Barry mesmerised Gerry with his Magic yet again! Meath Road Safety Officer Mick Finnegan appealed to drivers to slow down as road fatalities so far this year rise sharply. Vinny O'Reilly is selling Dog Showers? Niall Murphy is back trading the boards, Sinead Burke is longing for that family holiday and it's Jersey Boys all the way this week as our featured soundtrack... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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In this inaugural episode of Getting There, co-hosts Nora Jones and Niall Murphy unpack the October 4th ‘21 Facebook Outage and the unforeseen challenges and responsibilities that emerge when responding to an incident of such magnitude.

Support the Show. Get the NEW AudioBook! AudioBook: Audible| Kobo| Authors Direct | Google Play | Apple  SummaryHey everyone. Stay tuned to the end of the interview where I'll give you some actionable insights that I learned from my guest. These insights are also in the show notes. As always, thanks for listening. Now on to my guest today, Niall Murphy, CEO, and founder of EVRYTHNG Product Cloud.  Niall is a serial entrepreneur in the technology and communications space. He's Irish-born but grew up in South Africa and trained as a computer scientist. He was an advisor under the transition to the African National Congress in the early 90s and learned to plan by going backward from what would be needed in the future. His other ventures have included one of the first ISP companies in South Africa and a wifi company in Europe in the early 2000s.  Niall came up with the idea for EVRYTHNG after hearing someone ask, “Why can't I Google my shoes?” The mission of EVRYTHNG is to provide data and information on products all around the world, providing insight into where a product comes from, what it's made of, where it ends up, and much more. He sees this mission as inextricably tied to the project of sustainability as, for example, we can better understand what's in a piece of clothing so that it can be recycled instead of incinerated. It can also be used for tracing food at a time when people are increasingly wanting to know exactly where their food comes from and how it was grown or made. Niall also talks about the challenges in starting a business whose market hasn't been found yet, and what to do to ensure you're ready to jump in when demand hits.  Now let's get better together. Actionable Insights “Just get out there and get on with it,” Murphy says. “Don't wait for permission.”  Murphy also advises that you stick with your vision, but be ready to adapt. You might need to change your strategy or product but keep your vision always in mind.  Try to be a pioneer, but be careful not to overcapitalize too soon. Read the market, and make sure you have enough to keep you going until the market opens up.  Links to Explore Further EVRYTHNG Website  Niall Murphy on LinkedIn Productive AI Podcast Gartner Hype Curve Keep In TouchBook or Blog or Twitter or LinkedIn or JSYPR or Story Funnel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices