{"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 Fault Trees to Root Out Latent Defects","slug":"how-sre-teams-use-fault-trees-to-root-out-latent-defects","published_at":"2026-07-15T22:19:40+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923/how-sre-teams-use-fault-trees-to-root-out-latent-defects","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-0113.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/episode-0113.mp3","summary":"In Episode 113 of The Site Reliability Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how fault tree analysis — a technique borrowed from aerospace and nuclear engineering — is being adapted by SRE teams to uncover latent defects before they cause incidents. They walk through a real-world case from a major cloud provider where a fault tree traced a seemingly random database failover back to a misconfigured kernel parameter buried three layers deep in the dependency chain. Along the way, they discuss the difference between fault trees and postmortems, how to handle overlapping failures, and why mapping 'what-if' paths can cut mean time to resolution by as much as 40 percent. #FaultTreeAnalysis #SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #LatentDefects #IncidentPrevention #RootCauseAnalysis #CloudInfrastructure #DatabaseFailover #DependencyMapping #FailureModes #ProductionEngineering #Uptime #ReliabilityEngineering #SystemsThinking #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #Technology #TechOps Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"In Episode 113 of The Site Reliability Podcast, Lucas and Luna explore how fault tree analysis — a technique borrowed from aerospace and nuclear engineeri…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":530,"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-fault-trees-to-root-out-latent-defects/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-fault-trees-to-root-out-latent-defects.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}