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Was Akamai the Velvet Underground of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? - Abhijit Mehta - Bonus
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle
03/21/24 • 12 min
Kevin Riggle interviews Abhijit Mehta about Akamai and its role in the history and development of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Bonus episode outtake from https://warstories.criticalpoint.tv/episodes/he-broke-turkish-twitter-abhijit-mehta
Abhijit's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbhijitCMehta
Abhijit's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehtaabhijit/
To watch the video version of the podcast on YouTube, check out the channel page at https://youtube.com/@critical-point
Credits:
Transcript/captions by Melody Wisp (https://melodywisp.carrd.co/#commissions).
Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://emojitwo.github.io/), originally released as Emojione 2.2 (https://www.emojione.com/) by Ranks.com (http://www.ranks.com/) with contributions from the Emojitwo community and is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).
He Broke Turkish Twitter - Abhijit Mehta
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle
02/22/24 • 65 min
Kevin Riggle interviews Abhijit Mehta, who tells how one tiny dot made almost made a massive difference to Twitter's Turkish ad revenue.
Abhijit's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AbhijitCMehta
Abhijit's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mehtaabhijit/
Chapters:
- (00:00) - Intro
- (01:25) - How did you find yourself in a place where you could break production?
- (08:53) - Akamai & the 'aha' moments of product development
- (15:30) - Google & the Google culture
- (17:35) - Twitter & what's the difference between brand ads and direct-response ads?
- (23:58) - How Twitter made its money
- (27:58) - Re-architecting the fundamental ad platform at Twitter
- (32:35) - "We had to be really careful!"
- (34:48) - "There's something really weird happening in Turkey"
- (37:49) - The meaning of scale
- (41:02) - "Well we'd thought of all the horses, so we started looking for zebras"
- (43:48) - "So here's what happened"
- (49:30) - "So this will work fine almost everywhere"
- (53:51) - How do you roll things like this out safely?
- (59:56) - "In general I'm an optimist, there's exciting things to come"
- (01:03:52) - Thanks & CTAs
Credits:
Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://emojitwo.github.io/), originally released as Emojione 2.2 (https://www.emojione.com/) by Ranks.com (http://www.ranks.com/) with contributions from the Emojitwo community and is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).
The Reporter Called Her Christmas Day - Melanie Ensign - Bug Bounty & Incident Management
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle
06/25/24 • 56 min
Kevin Riggle interviews Melanie Ensign (Discernible Inc.), former Global Head of Security, Privacy, & Engineering Communications for Uber, about building good bug bounty programs, incident management processes, and one especially memorable Christmas morning.
Melanie's company: https://discernibleinc.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanieensign/
Twitter: https://x.com/imeluny
Mastodon: https://defcon.social/@Wednesday
Credits:
Edited by sleepingsage.
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).
She Made Dropbox Give the Internet Free Watermelon? - Kate Rudolph
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle
09/26/23 • 54 min
Kevin Riggle interviews Kate Rudolph, who tells how a rolled back commit on her intern project resulted in Dropbox, her employer, offering free watermelon to the entire Internet.
Credits:
Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://emojitwo.github.io/), originally released as Emojione 2.2 (https://www.emojione.com/) by Ranks.com (http://www.ranks.com/) with contributions from the Emojitwo community and is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
He Locked Players Out On Launch Day - Zachery Johnson
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle
09/21/23 • 84 min
Kevin Riggle interviews Zachery Johnson, who tells how an innocent command doomed the database servers and locked players out of Diablo II: Resurrected on Day 2 of launch.
Blizzard's blog post on the incident: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d2r/t/diablo-ii-resurrected-outages-an-explanation-how-we%E2%80%99ve-been-working-on-it-and-how-we%E2%80%99re-moving-forward/28164
Credits:
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
He Broke (part of) The Internet - Willie Williams
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle
08/03/23 • 47 min
Kevin Riggle interviews Willie Williams, who tells the story of the time he accidentally took down a major site while an intern at Akamai.
Willie's Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigwilliestyle
Credits:
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
She Missed the Overnight Push! - Julia Lunetta
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle
02/08/24 • 52 min
Kevin Riggle interviews Julia Lunetta, who tells us how an ostensibly minor change caused her employer, a financial institution (Upromise Investments), to miss its overnight reconciliation with its banks.
Credits:
Emoji artwork is provided by Emojitwo (https://emojitwo.github.io/), originally released as Emojione 2.2 (https://www.emojione.com/) by Ranks.com (http://www.ranks.com/) with contributions from the Emojitwo community and is licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode).
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Critical Point logo and wordmark designed by Timothy James Lopez.
https://www.behance.net/lopeztimes
Critical Point logo and wordmark copyright c 2020 Complex Systems Group, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).
The Future Is (Literally!) Bright - How Infrastructure Works, by Deb Chachra - Climate, Energy, & the Future
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle
06/07/24 • 75 min
Kevin Riggle interviews Deb Chachra, professor of engineering at Olin College and author of HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS about climate change, the housing crisis, the green/sustainable energy transition, and how we can build a better world for ourselves and everyone around us.
BUY DEB'S BOOK! https://criticalpoint.tv/infrastructure
Deb's Twitter: https://twitter.com/debcha
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/debcha.bsky.social
Mastodon: https://saturation.social/@debcha
Web site: http://debcha.org
Big Dig podcast from WGBH Boston: https://www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the-big-dig
Chapters:
Credits:
Edited by sleepingsage.
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).
What is the role of a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer)? - Melanie Ensign - Bonus
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle
07/29/24 • 17 min
Host Kevin Riggle interviews Melanie Ensign, former Global Head of Security, Privacy, & Engineering Communications for Uber, about what the role of a CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) is. (Hint: It's not being the smartest security person in the room.)
Bonus episode from https://warstories.criticalpoint.tv/episodes/the-reporter-called-her-christmas-day-melanie-ensign-bug-bounty-incident-management-programs
Video: https://youtu.be/e60YHYHTFUk
Melanie's newsletter: https://discernibleinc.com/newsletter-signup
Melanie's company: https://discernibleinc.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanieensign/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/imeluny
Mastodon: https://defcon.social/@Wednesday
To subscribe to the video version of the podcast on YouTube, and watch other Critical Point content, check out https://youtube.com/@critical-point
Credits:
Edited by sleepingsage.
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).
He Won George Hotz's Money - Andrey Petrov
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle
07/15/24 • 58 min
Host Kevin Riggle interviews Andrey Petrov about three different incidents he was involved with: A programming mistake in high school that filled its alumni's email inboxes, a Twitter analytics site he built that got co-opted as part of a phishing scam, and how he won a bug bounty on the Ethereum blockchain rollup prototype developed by superstar hacker George Hotz.
Chapters:
- (00:00) - Intros/titles
- (05:02) - The Alumni Email Explosion
- (18:00) - The Twitter Tracker Takeover
- (33:09) - The George Hotz Ethereum Rollups Bug Bounty Bonanza
- (57:02) - Socials/outro
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWuqAePsquo
News coverage of the Twitter Tracker Takeover:
“New Twitter Scam Won't Show You Your 'Stalkers'” - NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna44123467
“Beware: Twitter spam viral application on the loose” - Posilan
https://www.posilan.com/2011/07/20/beware-twitter-spam-viral-application-on-the-loose/
“After a lull of a few months, new Twitter Phishing Scam phrases appear” - Just Practising
https://www.justpractising.com/social-tools/twitter/after-a-lull-new-twitter-phishing-scam-phrases-appear/
Andrey's Twitter: https://twitter.com/shazow
Farcaster: https://warpcast.com/shazow.eth
Web site: https://shazow.net/
To subscribe to the video version of the podcast on YouTube, and watch other Critical Point content, check out https://youtube.com/@critical-point
Credits:
Edited by sleepingsage.
Intro & outro - "Senpai Funk" by Paul T. Starr. Used with permission.
https://soundcloud.com/ptstarr
Produced by Complex Systems Group LLC (https://complexsystems.group).
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FAQ
How many episodes does Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle have?
Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle currently has 11 episodes available.
What topics does Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle cover?
The podcast is about Devops, Software, Podcasts and Technology.
What is the most popular episode on Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle?
The episode title 'She Made Dropbox Give the Internet Free Watermelon? - Kate Rudolph' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle?
The average episode length on Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle is 53 minutes.
How often are episodes of Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle released?
Episodes of Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle are typically released every 20 days, 3 hours.
When was the first episode of Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle?
The first episode of Critical Point War Stories with Kevin Riggle was released on Aug 3, 2023.
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