ShipTalk - Heavy Rock, Netflix vs. Google, Continuous Resiliency, and a Lost City - a conversation with Adrian Cockcroft
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ShipTalk - Heavy Rock, Netflix vs. Google, Continuous Resiliency, and a Lost City - a conversation with Adrian Cockcroft

In this episode of ShipTalk (The SRE Edition), Adrian Cockcroft shares his thoughts on "the 5th accelerate metric" - reliability - and the State of DevOps, using error budgets, and how to achieve continuous reliability. He shares some interesting stories about the differences between Netflix and Google, as well as some personal stories to boot. Introductions Just for fun #1 - Adrian's favorite hobby Main topic - State of DevOps reliability metric, error budgets, continuous resiliency Just fo...

Jim Hirschauer: Welcome to Ship
Talk, the SRE edition.

I'm Jim Hirschauer, your host
for today.

And Ship Talk is a DevOps
podcast, brought to you by

Harness software delivery
platform.

And in the SRE edition we focus
on reliability topics.

My guest today is Adrianne
Cockcroft.

Adrian, welcome to the show.

Adrian Cockcroft: Hi there.

Great to be here.

Jim Hirschauer: Appreciate you
coming on.

Look, I'm sure most of our
listeners already know who you

are, but if you don't mind,
could you please take a minute

to share a little bit about your
background and what you're up to

these days?

Adrian Cockcroft: Well I've got
a long career so it's hard to

fit it into a few seconds But I
retired last summer from Amazon

and I'm now doing advisory and
consulting kind of work and sort

of semi-retired state.

And I was at Amazon as a VP for
about six years.

Did open source and
sustainability and a whole lot

around Just all the helping
customers move to cloud

basically.

Before I was at battery Ventures
VC firm, middle of all of the

sort of containerization of
computing and all that kind of

stuff.

And most people know me cuz I
was at Netflix for seven years

and I, I kind of feel like the
last decade I've just been

explaining Netflix to people
over and over again.

Right.

Cause we seemed like we invented
a whole bunch of stuff there or

figured out how to do things
that people seem to find

fascinating.

So that's pretty much it.

And then back in the long, long
history, I was at Sun and eBay

and a few other things.

Jim Hirschauer: Well,
congratulations on an absolutely

amazing career.

There's some fantastic
highlights to your career for

sure.

Thanks.

So before we get into the, the
heavy meaty topic that I'd like

to talk about today, we have
this section that we do called

just for fun on the show, and I
ask people interesting things

about themselves.

So Adrian, I'd love to know, I'm
sure you have lots of

interesting things going on in
your life outside of just work

and technology.

What's your favorite hobby?

Adrian Cockcroft: So I've been I
like music and I've been, I

liked to have a hobby that
wasn't sitting at the keyboard.

So yeah, I could have done
computer music, but that

would've been more time sitting
at the keyboard, and that was

the thing I wanted to get away
from.

So back when I was in high
school, I played bass guitar and

a heavy metal band, actually a
heavy rock band called Granite

was my first band.

So bad puns have been a feature
of my naming schemes ever since.

then actually played a few gigs
with a few of the bands.

And then I stopped playing
basically when I got a job and

got married and got busy with
life.

More recently I've been playing
a little bit more, and now that

I quote retired, I, I started
taking guitar lessons to

actually learn the music theory
that I never really knew, cuz I

was just trying to keep up with
people.

They say bass players hang
around with musicians and

drummers hang around with bass
players and hit things So we're

kind of you don't, it's pretty
easy to play bass.

You can just learn some patterns
and try to copy stuff.

But now, you know, I have, I
keep acquiring more random

equipment and trying to do
things and I, I went through a

bunch of old archives of stuff I
was doing 40 years ago and, and

put it on on SoundCloud.

So if anyone's desperately wants
to hear what weird things I put

up there, there's a whole lot of
archival stuff.

And then a few more recent
things that that I've been

playing around with on
soundcloud slash

Adrian.Cockcroft or something
similar so you can find it.

So that's, that's kind of what I
do when I'm not into to that.

And then the other stuff is
mostly out playing around with

cars and the usual things that
people do.

But that's been my like I'm
actually taking lessons to try

and learn what I'm doing rather
than just stumbling around.

Jim Hirschauer: Yeah, I can
totally respect that.

I've, I've also played guitar or
tried to play guitar for many

years and have never gotten
really any formal training, so

I'm a little bit jealous right
now that you're getting to head

down that path.

Do you have any favorite
guitarists by the way?

Adrian Cockcroft: I like a
pretty wide variety of things.

I just, you know, Jeff Beck
passed away recently.

I just went and listened to the
entire back catalog to kind of

realize just how much feel he
had that he could put into the

guitar.

Yeah.

There's a.

Guitarist, most people don't
know, called Eric Tessmer, who

plays in Austin.

If you're ever in Austin, you
can usually find him playing.

He's, he's a, like a Stevie Ray
Vaughan, like guitarist, but

never kind of got got to be
hugely popular but i, I like him

a lot.

And then more into the sort of
prog rock space, sort of Robert

Fripp and things that no one has
any, no one else can play,

basically Alright.

Complicated stuff like that.

That's kind of the the, the, the
scale of it, all kinds of

different things.

Jim Hirschauer: Awesome.

Well, I actually live in Austin,
so I'm gonna go see if I can

find Eric and and hear a show.

Adrian Cockcroft: Yeah, he's
been, we first saw him in 2005.

He's been there a long time.

He's been, he's, he played some
great gigs.

Jim Hirschauer: A great
recommendation.

Alright.

So let's jump into the main
topic, if you don't mind.

Here, here's what I wanted to
talk about.

So, in the latest state of
DevOps report that I read they

introduced reliability as.

Quote unquote, the fifth metric,
their fifth important metric to

go along with deployment
frequency, lead time for

changes, time to restore service
and change failure rate.

And I'm gonna quote what they
said in the report.

I'm just gonna read it directly
because I think it's really

interesting.

They said, when reliability is
poor, Software delivery

performance does not predict
organizational success.

However, with better
reliability, we begin to see

positive influence of software
delivery on business success.

And I think that's a huge
statement because we've seen so

many companies really laser
focused on these four metrics

and so many engineering
organizations thinking that if

they can achieve these four
metrics and, and improve on

these four metrics, that that is
going to directly impact their

success as a business.

But this statement, seems to
contradict that a little bit.

It says, you know, those are
important, but there's this

other metric reliability that
you need to focus on to really

be successful.

So I'd love to hear what you
thought about those findings.

Adrian Cockcroft: One of the
things is they didn't really

define what reliability is.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They, they, yeah.

It's sort of a self-reported.

Do you think you have good
reliability or not seem to be

kind of what was being run off
of rather than is there a

particular metric and, you know,
everyone measures it

differently, but it's a little
bit self-reported, so it may be

that there's some correlation in
there that's affecting it.

The thing I think is in
interesting is that if the

system's reliable, And it's
resilient then, and it's, it

basically means it's able to
absorb small shocks and things

going wrong without failure,
because failure's there all the

time.

The question is, is your system
capable of masking that failure

to the end users?

If that's true, then you get to
try things out more

aggressively.

If you're a developer and you
have to go through a, you know,

a really long, complicated QA
process to get something out

because everyone's terrified
that you're gonna break the

site, it slows down the pace of
innovation.

Sure.

If you've got something where
you can deploy it and if it

breaks the system, sort of
quarantines it out and you know,

maybe one customer got a retry,
nobody notices.

Right.

That's a very different world,
and what I think is that if

you've got really.

So reliability characteristics,
then you can actually run

faster.

And the sort of analogy here is
running with scissors, right?

Yeah.

They say, don't run with
scissors, you'll hurt yourself.

Mm-hmm.

right?

Everyone says that.

And then, okay.

So if you like wrap the scissors
in bubble wrap or so, or some

kind of case so that they're
safe, you can run with scissors.

Yeah.

Right.

But you've, you've got some
compensating thing around it.

So it's, it's more like making
it safe to go.

and that's a lot of the value of
resilience from a sort of a

business point of view.

It just just means that you
spend less time firefighting and

you are, you can do things that
would in other environments

would be dangerous or actually
safe in in environments that

have good sort of resilience and
containment properties.

Jim Hirschauer: Right.

You, you made a couple of
statements in there I'd like to

unpack a little bit.

First one.

You called out rightly so that
this reliability metric isn't

actually defined as a metric in
the report.

It's, it's just called
reliability.

So do you have any
recommendations for folks on

what they should be doing to
define reliability within their

organizations?

Adrian Cockcroft: Yeah, there's,
there's a long topic here, but

the classical sort of definition
is up and down If you've got a

monolith right?

It's either up or it's down.

If it crashes, it's down, right?

Mm-hmm.

And so people say, oh, if you,
it's sort of this state where

it's very clearly you say This
thing is either working or not

working.

Very clean division between the
two.

You can measure the amount of
time of it's in each state and

say, that's your uptime, right?

What actually happens in more
sophisticated systems is they

degrade slowly.

So a little bit of it's slightly
broken.

Some number of customers aren't
getting served, but most people

are.

Okay, so it's not down, right?

Right.

Yeah.

But your, you know, 0.1% of
customers are currently impacted

because that feature they were
trying to use or the, the route

to their ISPs is down or
something like that.

So it's very difficult to
measure that with a

straightforward up down
availability metric, which is

based on time.

So what I like to do is based on
success rate.

So if you look at, and the
classic thing we did at Netflix

was streaming starts, right?

Mm-hmm.

the core metric they have is how
many people started tried to

start a movie and did they
succeed in starting a movie?

You hit play, did you get your
movie right?

Right.

And that was the metric.

And it goes up and down.

The rate is quite low at, you
know, in the US at 3:00 AM.

Right.

It's like security guards
watching it on their gameboys,

whatever.

and which is actually, I think
pretty much what it turned out

to be at the time.

Yeah.

And then, you know, and peak
time is whatever, you know,

Sunday evening was typically the
peak time, which is when the

site used to fall over.

And that's annoying because
everyone wanted to be at home

watching TV with their kids on
Sunday evening.

Right.

And that was usually when
Netflix collapsed cuz it was a

new all time record peak.

You know, you get these kinds of
cyclic effects, but what we

cared about was what we
generated was a metric, which

was the number of times that we
thought that we were missing.

And then we did that percentage.

So it was sort of, you know, how
many nines or whatever it was,

some percentage of uptime, three
or four nines or something like

that.

But it was of attempts to
deliver value to the customer

that succeeded or failed.

So that's where I'd like to see
people focus on reliability as

based on a customer facing value
delivery metric.

And it's typically there's some
value being delivered by a

website.

And then there's customer
signup, and that's the other

flow that's very standard.

You want to make sure customers
successfully sign up right, to

whatever your service is.

So those are probably the two
canonical things that I would

typically, you'd have two, and
then there may be more if you've

got a more complicated product
or set of products.

But it looks something like the
ability to get into the product

and the ability to deliver value
with the product are the things

that need to be reliable.

Jim Hirschauer: Got it.

What I've seen companies do is
use SLOs, assign SLIs and SLOs

to these type of metrics and
ultimately the the Google SRE

handbook that says you should
end up with error budgets as

well, and you can use error
budgets to do interesting things

with.

So I'm curious to get your take
on error budgets.

I've had conversations with a
lot of folks who say they were

never able to implement error
budgets, they never actually got

error budgets to function and
provide the business value that

was expected out of them.

So, you know, have you ever
implemented error budgets or do

you have any advice for anyone
trying to implement error

budgets and really get the true
value out of those?

Adrian Cockcroft: Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

The Google SRE book was
interesting because it was about

three quarters of the same as
what Netflix was doing, and a

quarter was like the opposite of
what Netflix was doing.

Okay.

So there was, so Netflix at the
time I was there didn't have a

central SRE team.

There wasn't this process of
handing off to a central team

and defining error budgets.

Basically, the teams owned their
own code through the entire life

cycle.

They owned it.

They owned a collection of
microservices that were fairly

stable and weren't changing very
much, and they just had them

running in the background.

And then there were some that
they were actively working on,

but they owned the business
function all the way out to the

end, and they were on call for
when it broke.

And so the central team that was
sort of like an SRE team didn't

actually own the, didn't make
changes to code.

Their job was to find out what
was broke and call the people

that owned that and get them to
fix it.

Okay.

And by, by and, and it's
annoying to be on call so people

generally got really good at
writing code that didn't break.

So we created a pain in the
right place.

So people built code and systems
and tooling so that their code,

they didn't have to be woken up
at 3:00 AM If something broke,

there was the system would,
would manage it.

So I think that's a good
principle.

It is difficult to get people to
take, you know, effectively

carry a pager if you're a
developer, right?

There is a mentality around it,
but if you can get that to

happen, it causes the whole
environment to be much more.

The other big difference in
Google and Netflix, Google at

that time had a lot of graduate
hires, a lot of young

developers, and we used to wait
for them to spend five or 10

years at Google before we hired
them at Netflix.

Yeah.

So Netflix was very much, a much
more senior crew.

Really, no graduate hires, no
interns.

So it was much more experienced
people.

And so there's, and it was a
much smaller, sort of built

differently from that point of
view.

So that's kind of some, some of
the core differences in the way

we did stuff.

Now, we did sort of try to meet
a quarterly goal on like,

whatever it was, four nine s or
something.

If we'd had a couple of outages
that quarter, we would

occasionally say, well, let's
bump this chaos region failover

test to the next quarter in case
it goes wrong.

So we sort of used error budgets
in sort of informal way.

That if we'd had a series of
outages, we'd maybe pull back on

some of the chaos engineering,
large scale testing where we

were potentially gonna cause an
outage.

Right.

And sort of so I saw a few
times, but we're just like,

let's do it next month cuz
that's next quarter and if we

survive that then we're good.

But Right.

We can sort of even out the
customer pain in terms of nines

of error rate.

So that was, that's sort of
informal error budget like

thing.

But we never had a formal error
budget system.

And I haven't, I haven't seen, I
haven't seen it used that much

as in, in a formal way, but I
haven't probably looked at many

environments.

But I mean, there's plenty
people have SREs.

I don't hear them talking about
error budgets that much.

Jim Hirschauer: Yeah, and, and
you know, quite honestly your

informal process that you just
mentioned is really, definitely

gets to the heart of what error
budgets are intended for and,

and how they should work.

You know, I, I get to talk to a
lot of different companies and,

it seems to me that one of the
failings currently around error

budgets is the difficulty in
really implementing the process

surrounding it.

It's not so much.

You know, implementing error
budgets.

After all, it's just fairly
simple math, but there is a

process that has to be
initiated, like, Hey, we're

gonna push this off in your
case, we're gonna push off this

test until next quarter.

And that seems to be at odds
with, you know, developers

typically needing to meet
timelines, meet deadlines, to

release new features and
functionality.

So that becomes, yeah, you know,
an interesting aspect to the

error budgets.

Adrian Cockcroft: The, the other
problem you get is talking to

product managers about error
budgets.

Have real trouble with the,
okay, say, well, how, what?

What do you want to do when the
site's down?

No, I don't want it to go down
Well, what do you want it to do

when it's down?

And they just said No.

But they don't ever want it to
go down.

They want it to be perfect.

And it says, okay, what degraded
states?

So you have to kind of get them
into a room and not let them out

and force them to think about
what degraded states are there

and what should you be doing?

And if this backend service goes
down, the system can do this and

it can't do that.

And you have to kind of plan
that into the product.

So the product itself has some
resilience, baked in, or some

progressive feature sort of sort
of turnoff.

And you know, ultimately if the
entire site's down, what are you

going to do?

And one of the things we did at
Netflix, we created a static

site that was somewhere else on
a totally different set of

infrastructure that just had
some movies you could watch and

that we had rights to.

And it had no personalization
and there was a mode where if

everything was completely down,
we could in theory just stand

this site up and it would,
everyone would redirect to it

and you'd be able to just watch
some stuff.

I'm not sure if it ever really
got used very often, but that

was kind of, that sort of meant
the mental model, the process of

getting there cause a lot of
things to be sorted out.

Like how would you do that and
how would you fail over from the

main thing to some sort of
backup that's at least telling

you, sorry, we're down.

We're gonna be okay eventually.

Yeah, and I think, so Datadog
had an outage yesterday, I

think.

And one of the things, I'm not
sure, I actually haven't read

the report of why they went
down, but their status page

actually, people saying their
status page was actually still

up and was working well, so, so.

You have, it's the basic stuff.

If you take, if your stainless
page goes down, when you go

down, you'll, you know, say no.

Okay.

You've done it, done something
seriously wrongly.

Right.

You have to figure out how to
think through what happens in

these failure mode.

Right.

Jim Hirschauer: Okay.

So that, that actually
transitions into the last thing

I really wanted to unpack that
you've been talking about is

resiliency and chaos engineering
is a way to work on the

resiliency of your systems.

A lot of companies that I've
talked to or had experience with

have used chaos engineering, but
it seems to be a very tactical

approach where they've had one
or two engineers that, that work

on the practice and it's very
siloed and segmented.

Do you have any recommendations
on how to make that more of a

strategic approach within a
company?

Adrian Cockcroft: Yeah.

I think it ends up being.

Like who's responsible?

Is it a developer concern or an
operations concern, or have you

sort of combined those together
into a, a true tech DevOps

combined organization?

And I just go back to now,
everyone's had backup data

centers for years, and if you
talk to people about how often

they actually fail over to them,
it's vanishingly small.

There are a few people who are,
banks are regulated to at least

show they could do it once a
year.

Other than that, it's pretty
rare to find people that have

spent the money on a backup data
center.

They mostly don't get the value
out of it, right?

So if you look at bringing that
into the modern world, what we

really care about is in the
cloud we've got all of these

backup data centers are just
there.

If you can figure out how to use
them, it's much easier to

provision a failover than a
physical data center.

So how are you using that?

The, the standard sort of
canonical cloud setup is three

zones in a region, and if a zone
goes down, your site should stay

up, but most people don't test
that.

So I would always start with,
can you take a zone outage?

And why can't you?

Right.

What goes wrong if a zone goes
down in your environment?

Are you routing traffic
correctly?

Do you know how to operate on a
two zone system in some degraded

mode?

Because, That was something we
sort of ran the test every two

weeks at Netflix where we just
shut down the zone to prove the

site still worked on the other
two, and every now and again it

would catch something and we'd
like rapidly back out of the

test.

Right.

So that's...

the most basic thing is if you,
if you can survive on two outta

three zones, you're in good
shape and most people can't even

do that.

And then once you get that
sorted, then you can think about

multi-region.

I would not even attempt
multi-region unless you figured

out, unless you can show that
you can do a two out of three

zone.

Resilience, right?

It's just mm-hmm.

you're not, you're not close to
it because you have to be able

to disambiguate the failure.

That means you have to shut down
a region from the failure that

you need to shut down a zone.

And it's very difficult to
figure out which of those is

actually the problem you've got
in the moment.

So, That's kind of one way of
doing it.

And the other way is to just
sort of have a weekly meeting

that says, well, what if
everything goes down?

And just have a bunch of
scenarios and do it as a paper

environment, and then start
building chaos engineering tests

into the test environment or
staging environment.

And eventually, once you've
convinced yourself, everything's

looking good, I'd create
probably a separate production

environment in the cloud.

You know, another account.

And I'd set up the Chaos
engineering tools in that

account.

And this is for the more
operations sort of focused

stuff, you know, killing
machines, killing zones cutting

off networks.

Cutting off dependencies.

So that's, that's the, but the
thing that really I think is, is

new and interesting, and it's
something that harnesses is

working at now is continuous
resilience.

So you take the CI/CD pipeline
and you put chaos engineering

into the pipeline.

So every new build of your
microservice goes through a

series of chaos tests.

to say like what happens if if
when it fires up one of its

dependencies isn't there or is
slow.

Yeah.

Right, right.

You've got a service running.

What if the connection to the
database, if the database is

slow, is a common thing?

Right.

Most things keel over cuz their
database got slow.

Right?

Right.

Or the connection to some
authentication service fails or

something like that.

You should have a graceful
degradation.

So this is more test driven
development, if you like, but

what you're doing is you're
setting it up as a chaos test in

the pipeline so that you can
continuously prove that this

little piece of the system is
resilient to failures around it.

And I think that more developer
oriented approach is, is a

really useful way of extending
the chaos engineering principles

down to something that's more,
more useful and more

continuously useful.

And then when you get the
failover of a region or a zone,

whatever, you know that your
individual microservice is going

to behave sensibly during that
process as things are failing

and failing over and recovering
from it quickly.

That kind of stuff.

Jim Hirschauer: Yeah, it's an
interesting approach because

ultimately there's a cultural
aspect here, right?

Like in your example, If you're
gonna pull out a, a zone or a

region, there has to be a
willingness to deal with the

consequences of that because you
could have tremendous

consequences as a business.

So it seems like there needs to
be buy-in culturally across the

business and by making it part
of a pipeline that, that seems

to kind of embed it within the
culture.

Like there's almost no choice
but for it to become part of the

culture at that point.

Adrian Cockcroft: Yeah, if you
can basically say this, this

microservice, if you cut one of
its dependencies, it will give

you a sane error message, and if
you restore that dependency, it

will recover quickly.

Right.

And it won't fall over.

You won't have to like restart
it from scratch.

And there's, you know, cause
systems come catatonic quite

often once when their
dependencies fail.

Yeah.

Right.

So that, that means you've built
some things more resilient, but

you still have to do that full
scale testing.

And you know, if you go to upper
management and you say, you

know, what do you want to happen
when the site goes down?

Right?

Do you want to, do you want it
to continue to be down?

Do you want it to escalate or do
you want it to recover quickly

and to be resilient to various
types of failure and if they're

doing something that matters is
either, you know, financially

or, or there's a high business
value to it being up, then they

should be asking the engineering
teams culturally, so this thing

should stay up.

Right?

It's important that it stays up.

Right?

Or, or maybe it doesn't matter.

Right.

And there's other things are
more important because what

you're doing is, you know, a
movie used to say like, Netflix

is just movies.

Right.

But, and the, it's not the end
of the world.

If Netflix doesn't work, you
could use something else.

The way attitude we had was your
TV set, you should turn it on.

It just works, right?

And that was the, it should turn
on and just work.

You shouldn't have to worry
about whether Netflix was up or

down.

It's like you're just trying to
watch tv, right?

Yeah.

And, and you shouldn't have to
think the, the least.

You should be unaware of the
fact that there's a whole bunch

of random, weird technology
stuff happening in the

background.

There should be no artifacts.

It should never pause while
you're watching something and it

should just work, right?

So that was why it mattered.

And the brand value of that was
basically the value that we sort

of assigned to resilience.

Jim Hirschauer: All right.

Adrian, I believe you're gonna
be speaking soon at Chaos

Carnival.

Is that accurate?

Yep, yep.

What's, what's your session
gonna be about?

Adrian Cockcroft: It's gonna be
about this idea of continuous

resilience and how that's kind
of where we've got to in the

whole chaos engineering world at
this point.

I've talked to various chaos
events before on sort of the

history of how we got here and,
and a few different things.

So focusing a bit on where we go
next now.

Jim Hirschauer: Okay, and I just
pulled up the website.

It looks like that's March 15th
through 16th.

Is that Chaos Carnival?

So, yep, definitely.

If you're listening in, go ahead
and check Adrian out at that

conference.

All right, so Adrian, we've
gotten through the meaty subject

and now I'd like to have one
more little fun segment.

You've been a great sport so far
for this I'd love to hear.

Do you have a favorite travel
story or a best travel spot that

you've been to somewhere around
the world?

Adrian Cockcroft: So one of the
more memorable places we went,

so I was, when I was with aws, I
was doing keynotes at various

AWS summits around the world,
and one of the ones I did was

Tel Aviv.

I think I did that twice.

And the second time I went in
with, well, let's go a few days

earlier and go and see Petra.

Which is in Jordan, but it's
like, it takes like a day or two

to get there and to get back.

So we flew in a few days earlier
and my wife and I flew down from

Tel Aviv to Isla on the Red Sea
and then got a, like a mini bus.

And it's a big hassle getting
into Jordan and the border and,

you know, it's, it's a pretty
much developing nation kind of

stuff.

So it's sort of, quite
interesting exercise to just to

get there.

And you get there and then you
go down this canyon and then all

of a sudden you see the, the,
the treasury, which is everyone

knows if they've watched you
know, the Indiana Jones in the

last crusade, right?

I guess they faked the interior
of it, but the exterior of it,

it's this amazing thing.

It's 2000 year old building cut
into the side of, of the rock,

and we went all through that
whole valley.

Wife had a hurt her foot at some
point, so, We got a got on a

little buggy, so they had these
horse drawn buggies and they're

just charging off this pretty
dangerous sort of this if you

try walking down there were
these horse drawn buggies sort

of charging past you and people
are camels going past you.

And we, we avoided the camels,
we did the horse drawn buggy and

it was kind of cool to go and
see all these buildings.

It's an amazing place worth a
visit.

Very much a, a different world.

And the, the story of the people
that built it I is pretty

interesting.

Literally 2000 years ago, and
then it was lost for a long

time.

Discover, rediscovered.

I guess a hundred years, couple
hundred years ago.

Jim Hirschauer: Wow.

What an amazing trip to be on.

I have seen a few pictures
online.

It looks absolutely incredible.

So it's definitely on my list
now to go and check that out if,

apparently, if I can get there.

So, should be interested.

Adrian Cockcroft: It's yeah, we
did a, like an organized tour of

things starting in Tel Aviv,
like.

They managed us getting there
and back.

Ah, good to know.

Yeah, it's not the, it's not the
best hotel experience or food

experience.

It's all about the, well, the
food's fine, but the, the the

overall it was, it was really
about the, the ancient ruins.

It was very cool.

Jim Hirschauer: Amazing.

Listen, thank you so much
Adrian, for joining us on the

show today.

We really appreciate you taking
your time out of your day.

And to all of our listeners, if
you are an SRE or if you're in a

related role and you'd like to
be a.

On Ship Talk.

Please go ahead and send us an
email at podcast@shiptalk.io and

we'll get back to you.

That's all for now.

Until next time, thanks.

Thanks, Adrian.