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Episode 124

How To Break Into Site Reliability Engineering on A F-1 Visa - w/ Sai Joshitha

Aug 27, 202600:41:28Audio-first conversation
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and a Kubernetes pod just quietly died. A guy in a different time zone taps his card for coffee and it works.

Who this is for

  • You are trying to get hired without sounding like everybody else in the pile.
  • You would rather hear Sai Joshitha's version while the mess is still fresh than get another polished hindsight sermon.

Key takeaways

  • Break Into Site Reliability Engineering on A F-1 Visa - w/ Sai Joshitha

Fast scan timestamps

00:00:00Sai Joshitha on Becoming a Site Reliability Engineer at Visa
00:00:20What Does a Site Reliability Engineer Actually Do?
00:02:59What Happens During a Production Incident?
00:05:18How SREs Use Logs, Metrics, Alerts, and Monitoring
00:08:19How Sai Joshitha Discovered SRE and Cloud Infrastructure
00:10:23University of Michigan-Dearborn MS and Starting a US Tech Career

Show notes

and a Kubernetes pod just quietly died. A guy in a different time zone taps his card for coffee and it works. He'll never know how close that was. Keeping him from finding out is Sai Joshitha's job.

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