SREcon Talks & Presentations

USENIX

Building Service Ownership Using Documentation, Telemetry, and a Chance to Make Things Better

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Explore strategies for building distributed service ownership in software teams, focusing on documentation, telemetry, and empowering teams to drive improvements in system reliability and performance.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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Lessons Learned in Black Box Monitoring 25,000 Endpoints

Explore black box monitoring of 25,000 government endpoints, learning strategies to monitor resistant systems and improve digital services across the US government.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

One on One SRE

Explore GitHub's innovative 1:1 SRE outreach and incident debrief programs, designed to foster a culture of resilience through empathy and psychological safety, enhancing organizational reliability.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Deploying SRE Training Best Practices to Production - What We Learned

Explore best practices for SRE training, including sequential learning, hands-on experiences, and continuous education. Learn from Google's insights on building effective SRE teams and fostering a culture of reliability.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Canarying Well - Lessons Learned from Canarying Large Populations

Explore canarying best practices, pitfalls, and strategies for safe production changes. Learn to balance priorities, handle diverse scenarios, and implement effective canary processes in software deployment.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

SRE Theory vs. Practice - A Song of Ice and TireFire

Humorous talk contrasting idealized SRE practices with real-world challenges. Speakers debunk perfect environments, offering practical insights and relatable experiences for SRE professionals.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Availability, Latency, and Cost - Withstanding Regional Outages

Explore Netflix's multi-region strategy for improved availability and latency, including algebraic models, incident management, and design considerations for efficient failovers and user steering.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Hunting for Risky Dependencies in the World of Microservices

Discover how to identify and mitigate hidden vulnerabilities in microservice architectures using OpenTelemetry, with real-world examples from Google Maps' high-risk dependencies.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

The Biases Confronting SREs

Explore biases in SRE, their impact on organizations, and strategies for mitigation. Learn to identify, discuss, and address cognitive biases and stereotypes to improve workplace equity and SRE integration.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

What Happens When You Type en.wikipedia.org

Explore Wikipedia's server-side architecture, from routers to microservices, and learn how open-source technologies power one of the world's top websites.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Building Resilience - How to Learn More from Incidents

Discover strategies to enhance organizational resilience through improved incident learning. Explore research-backed approaches to post-incident reviews and avoid common investigation pitfalls.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

From Nothing to SRE - Practical Guidance

Practical guidance on implementing Site Reliability Engineering in smaller organizations, addressing unique challenges, gaining buy-in, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and experimentation.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Applicable and Achievable Formal Verification

Introductory overview of formal verification techniques in industry, focusing on safety-critical systems. Explores tools, applications, and adaptability to existing infrastructures.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Evolution of Observability Tools at Pinterest

Explore Pinterest's journey in scaling observability tools, from metrics to log search and distributed tracing, as the company grew from startup to web-scale platform.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Are We All on the Same Page? Let's Fix That

Explore Adaptive Paging, an innovative alert handler that uses tracing and heuristics to identify and notify the team closest to the problem, reducing alert fatigue in complex distributed systems.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk