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Suddenly, you’re in charge. How do you create direction?
Listen now (25 mins) | A story about how I've learned to use strategy as a common tool
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Andrew howden
Suddenly, you're in charge. Now what?
Some tools and techniques I've used in the past to create a common sense of direction and purpose.
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Andrew howden
August 2023
Reading Lists
Books, papers and assorted bits I've made it through and are useful.
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Andrew howden
My Radical Idea: How to be a Site Reliability Engineer
Listen now (8 mins) | I want to pass on whatever I've learned about SRE. I need your help to make sure its useful
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Andrew howden
My radical idea: How to be a Site Reliability Engineer
I want to pass on whatever I've learned about SRE. I need your help to make sure its useful
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Andrew howden
Incident Commander
Listen now | What an incident commander is, they need to know, what they do and how to prepare for the role.
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Andrew howden
Incident Commander
How to maximize the capabilities of those responding to production outages
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Andrew howden
The elegant, but unspoken solution
A quick write-up about the interlinking between engineering value, high performance teams and psychological safety
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Andrew howden
What is a container?
A (long) description of the internals of a container.
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Andrew howden
What is an SLO? What is it suitable for?
Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to help different organisations implement service-level objectives. The experience has been great, and the…
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Andrew howden
July 2023
Help I'm now on call!
What to do if you find yourself responsible for production systems and you're not sure entirely what that means
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Andrew howden
Running an effective meeting
Making good use of everyone else time
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Andrew howden
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