In this episode of the podcast, Peter Teitelbaum, director of site reliability engineering at Peacock, discusses the SRE function and the business impact of building it out. Peacock is a TV streaming service that offers both video-on-demand and live offerings. Peter's role at Peacock was to build out the SRE team and define what SRE meant at Peacock. The discussion covers the importance of resiliency, stability, automation, infrastructure management, and observability in ensuring the platform is robust and reliable. Highlights: [00:03:04] Building SRE on Four Pillars. [00:06:25] Relationship between SRE and security. [00:08:15] Importance of resiliency. [00:11:53] Remote vs On-site Work. [00:17:30] SRE maturity never ends. [00:18:23] Managing code for automation. [00:21:56] SRE Job Technologies. Peter Teitelbaum is the Director of Site Reliability Engineering for NBCUniversal's Peacock TV streaming service. As part of the team that launched Peacock in 2020, he created a SRE culture and established several SRE teams that support the platform. Prior to joining Peacock, Peter spent over ten years at iHeartMedia, where he was focused on technology across several products, including a radio station web platform, launching iHeartRadio, and audio streaming. Peter's roots are in software engineering, learning his first programming language in the mid-90s. Peter has focused on software engineering, platform architecture, operations, software delivery, infrastructure management, and Site Reliability Engineering throughout his career. https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-teitelbaum/ --- Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Tech Trek, and we would appreciate it if you would take a minute to rate and review us on your favorite podcast player. Want to learn more about us? Head over at https://www.elevano.com Have questions or want to cover specific topics with our future guests? Please message me at https://www.linkedin.com/in/amirbormand (Amir Bormand)