{"podcast":{"title":"The Site Reliability Podcast with Fexingo: SRE, Uptime, and Production Engineering","slug":"the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923","podcast_index_feed_id":7871923,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":119,"summary":"Lucas and Luna cut through the noise around site reliability engineering to examine how real-world SRE teams balance uptime, incident response, and production change. Each episode takes a single concept — error budgets, toil automation, postmortem culture, capacity planning — and grounds it in a specific case: how a major streaming service reduced paging noise, how a payments platform rebuilt its incident command structure, or how a cloud provider manages multi-region failover. Lucas brings the numbers — latency percentiles, MTTR trends, SLO burn rates — while Luna pushes on the human and organizational trade-offs: What does a junior SRE need to know about on-call? How do you measure reliability without crushing innovation? Why do some blameless postmortems actually work? Together they treat SRE not as a certification topic but as a living practice, citing real outages, open-source tools, and engineering blogs. This show is for engineers, ops leads, and platform teams who already know the basics and want to debate the hard edges: Is 99.999% uptime always worth the cost? When should you deliberately degrade service to improve reliability? How do you design for resilience when your…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-18T22:18:41.635042+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923"},"episode":{"title":"How SRE Teams Use Dependency Graphs to Prevent Cascading Failures","slug":"how-sre-teams-use-dependency-graphs-to-prevent-cascading-failures","published_at":"2026-07-09T22:26:50+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923/how-sre-teams-use-dependency-graphs-to-prevent-cascading-failures","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/episode-0101.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/episode-0101.mp3","summary":"In this episode of The Site Reliability Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how SRE teams build and use dependency graphs to map service interconnections and prevent cascading failures. They discuss the 2021 Fastly outage as a real-world example of a dependency chain gone wrong, and walk through how teams at companies like Google and Netflix maintain dynamic dependency maps using tools like service meshes and distributed tracing. Lucas explains the difference between static and runtime dependency graphs, and Luna shares how a dependency graph helped her team catch a looming database overload during a Black Friday simulation. The hosts also touch on the challenges of graph maintenance at scale and the emerging role of AI in automating dependency discovery. A practical, concrete look at how understanding your system's hidden connections can save your service. #SiteReliabilityEngineering #SRE #DependencyGraphs #CascadingFailures #Fastly #ServiceMesh #DistributedTracing #ResilienceEngineering #ProductionEngineering #TechPodcast #IncidentResponse #SystemDesign #Observability #Netflix #Google #Uptime #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In this episode of The Site Reliability Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how SRE teams build and use dependency graphs to map service interconnections and…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":605,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923/episodes/how-sre-teams-use-dependency-graphs-to-prevent-cascading-failures/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923/how-sre-teams-use-dependency-graphs-to-prevent-cascading-failures.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}