Episode 2 - Art of Automation

Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, CTO of IBM Automation and host of The Art of Automation podcast takes the audience through the evolution of automation and how it relates to SRE. Jerry shares with the audience of what SRE means to him, touches on the ROI of SRE and ingredient to the SRE omelette. Jerry also has a shout out to all Site Reliability Engineers, past, current and future on innovation in this space.

Timestamps:

[00:02 - 01:41] Intro to the episode

[02:04 - 03:41] What automation is, and how it helps us

[04:42 - 07:12] Overcoming a lack of trust in automation

[08:57 - 11:51] Jerry's experience achieving the 50/50 standard

[12:49 - 13:44] What SRE means to Jerry

[14:17 - 20:16] Advice to the next gen of SRE: How to innovate the space

[22:09 - 25:26] Drive the prioritization of SRE through ROI

[25:50 - 27:17] Where is SRE going?