{"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 Toil Budgets to Automate the Right Things","slug":"how-sre-teams-use-toil-budgets-to-automate-the-right-things","published_at":"2026-07-16T10:12:41+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-site-reliability-podcast-with-fexingo-sre-uptime-and-production-engineering-7871923/how-sre-teams-use-toil-budgets-to-automate-the-right-things","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-0114.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/the-site-reliability-podcast/episode-0114.mp3","summary":"Episode 114 of The Site Reliability Podcast explores a concept that separates mature SRE teams from the rest: the toil budget. Lucas and Luna break down how teams at companies like Google and Shopify explicitly cap the amount of manual, repetitive work engineers spend each week — and what happens when you let teams decide which 30 percent of their toil to automate first. They walk through a real example from a mid-sized e-commerce platform that cut its on-call ticket volume by 60 percent after implementing a toil budget tied to a service-level objective. The episode also covers common failure modes: setting the budget too low, tracking toil wrong, and confusing cognitive overhead with toil. No vague advice — just a concrete framework any SRE team can steal. #SRE #SiteReliabilityEngineering #ToilBudget #Automation #GoogleSRE #DevOps #Uptime #IncidentResponse #OnCall #ServiceLevelObjective #PlatformEngineering #TechOps #ReliabilityEngineering #Observability #ProductionEngineering #IncidentManagement #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"Episode 114 of The Site Reliability Podcast explores a concept that separates mature SRE teams from the rest: the toil budget. Lucas and Luna break down h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":616,"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-toil-budgets-to-automate-the-right-things/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-toil-budgets-to-automate-the-right-things.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}