SE Radio 643: Ganesh Datta on Production Readiness

SE Radio 643: Ganesh Datta on Production Readiness

Author: team@se-radio.net (SE-Radio Team) November 21, 2024 Duration: 53:15

Ganesh Datta, co-founder of Cortex.io, joins host Robert Blumen for a conversation about production readiness. The conversation covers the history of production readiness; its relationship to microservice architecture; the Google SRE model's impact on production readiness; production readiness checklists; the process; and production readiness transparency.


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