Ship it! with the Authors of Site Reliability Engineering, 2nd Edition (Part 1)

In this episode of the Prodcast, guest host David Blank-Edelman sits down with four of the editors of the seminal Site Reliability Engineering book—Betsy Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, Christof Leng, and David Huska—for the first of a two-part retrospective and sneak peek into the upcoming Second Edition (2e). A decade after the original book introduced SRE principles to the world, the team reflects on its runaway success and how the industry has evolved from Google's internal setup to forging independent reliability cultures. The authors share why 2e is a ground-up, complete rewrite—retiring commoditized infrastructure walkthroughs to focus on platform engineering, sociotechnical systems, and real-world case studies from other companies. The conversation also tackles industry dogma around SLOs and error budgets, features a lightning round of the authors' favorite new chapters, and dives into what AI means for the future of SRE. Join us for an honest, funny, and insightful conversation on where production engineering has been—and where it's headed next!