{"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 Latency Budgets to Meet Performance SLOs","slug":"how-sre-teams-use-latency-budgets-to-meet-performance-slos","published_at":"2026-06-29T22:27:49+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923/how-sre-teams-use-latency-budgets-to-meet-performance-slos","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-0081.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/episode-0081.mp3","summary":"Lucas and Luna dive into latency budgets — a less-discussed SRE tool that maps acceptable delay across each microservice in a user request chain. They use the example of a social media app's photo upload feature: if the overall latency SLO is 500 milliseconds, the team allocates 50 ms to the auth service, 200 ms to the image processing service, and so on. Lucas explains how Google's internal SRE teams popularized this approach, and Luna shares how her former employer used latency budgets to identify a misconfigured CDN that was adding 120 ms per request. The episode covers common pitfalls like budget over-allocation due to optimistic assumptions, and a practical tip: instrument every service with percentile-based latency tracking (p50, p95, p99). No fluff, just a concrete reliability pattern you can apply. #LatencyBudgets #SiteReliabilityEngineering #ServiceLevelObjectives #Microservices #PerformanceEngineering #Uptime #Observability #DistributedSystems #GoogleSRE #CDN #p99Latency #RootCauseAnalysis #IncidentResponse #DevOps #Technology #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast #TheSiteReliabilityPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Lucas and Luna dive into latency budgets — a less-discussed SRE tool that maps acceptable delay across each microservice in a user request chain. They use…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":546,"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-latency-budgets-to-meet-performance-slos/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-latency-budgets-to-meet-performance-slos.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}