ShipTalk - A "Civ tech tree" for SREs, the M-word, and a new unit of measure called "Micro-Jacksons" - Steve McGhee - DevRel at Google

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Steve McGhee shares tells us about a new open-source project that helps SREs understand which capabilities are required to achieve increasing levels of reliability (the nines). He also shares some interesting stories about misadventures with user files and how Google handled the news that Michael Jackson had passed away.

Introductions
Just for fun #1 - Steve's activities outside of work
Main topic - r9y.dev, what it is, how to use it, how to contribute
Just for fun #2 - Steve's worst IT mess-ups and creating a new unit of measure
Closing