Mentorship, SRE, and Google with Tobias Weingartner

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Tobias Weingartner plays a pivotal role in Google's Traffic Control Team, where he specializes in optimizing the global system load balancer (GSLB). As an integral member of this team, he collaborates closely with the development team responsible for crafting the intricate code that powers Google's internal load balancing infrastructure. Specifically, Tobias focuses his expertise on the SRE aspect, ensuring the seamless operation of Google's vast network traffic. In this episode, Tobias...

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0:00.0	This episode is brought to you by Arden Labs Education.
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0:10.4	Visit Ardenlabs.com forward slash education for more information.
0:20.2	Welcome to the Ar Lives podcast, and our special guest today is Toby Wine Gardner, also, aka, I have to say it, the Nutty Swiss.
0:33.8	I love that handle, by the way. I just love it. Every time it pops up on my, on my Twitter
0:39.4	feed, I smile because I know something good's coming out of the, I really do love your feed,
0:44.8	Toby. I think it's awesome. Thank you. It's been a lot of fun, I guess. It's the best way to put it.
0:52.6	Things have changed, obviously, in the recent past.
0:54.7	But I don't even know how long my feed's been up now.
0:58.5	My guess is, I know, 15 years or something.
1:02.1	Wow.
1:02.6	So you're like early, early Twitter adopter.
1:05.3	Sort of weird way.
1:07.1	I think I got on Twitter.
1:10.0	I want to say sometime before I joined Twitter, but I didn't
1:16.0	really use it until I actually was working at Twitter for a little while. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:22.3	I'm really excited to talk to you. I think it's going to be a lot of fun. So give everybody the two-minute elevator pitch
1:30.3	on what Toby's doing today. So right now I work at Google. I'm part of a team called Traffic Control.
1:39.0	I take care of a system called GSLB stands for global system load balancer.
1:46.4	So pretty much a good chunk, if not all, of the internal load balancing that Google does.
1:54.7	The dev team are the ones that write the code, and I'm on the SRE side.
1:59.8	So I try and make sure that things keep running and
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