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

USENIX

How to Not Destroy Your Production Kubernetes Clusters

Learn from real Kubernetes production incidents and best practices for maintaining high cluster availability, focusing on challenges with large-scale deployments and common operational pitfalls.

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

USENIX

SRE and ML - Why It Matters

Explore the intersection of SRE and Machine Learning, discussing its importance, challenges in ML reliability, and potential changes to the SRE profession. Skeptically examines ML automation in production.

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

USENIX

Knowledge and Power - A Sociotechnical Systems Discussion on the Future of SRE

Exploring sociotechnical systems in SRE, balancing operational load with learning, and examining knowledge sharing and risk reduction. Offers new perspectives on organizational structures shaping work practices.

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

USENIX

Tracing Bare Metal with OpenTelemetry

Explore how Equinix Metal implemented OpenTelemetry tracing for bare metal provisioning, improving debugging and reliability across their global infrastructure.

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

USENIX

Improving How We Observe Our Observability Data - Techniques for SREs

Explore techniques to enhance observability data visualization for SREs, including multivariate relationships, small multiples, and sparklines, while avoiding common pitfalls in engineering presentations.

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

USENIX

DO, RE, Me - Measuring the Effectiveness of Site Reliability Engineering

Explore the relationship between DevOps and SRE, their effectiveness, and how elite software delivery teams can benefit from modernizing technical operations.

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

USENIX

The Future of Above-the-Line Tooling

Explore the future of Above-the-Line tooling in complex systems, its challenges, and potential functions. Learn from experts about improving system monitoring and human performance in critical environments.

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

USENIX

Tales from the VOID - The Scary Truth about Incident Metrics

Challenges industry-standard incident metrics, proposing alternative approaches for better system resilience. Explores VOID database insights to improve incident response and organizational learning.

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

USENIX

EBPF - The Next Power Tool of SREs

Explore eBPF, a revolutionary Linux kernel technology for infrastructure observation and protection. Learn its capabilities, use cases, and implementation for enhanced system reliability and security.

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

USENIX

Building a Path to the Future - Mentoring New SREs

Strategies for effective mentorship in SRE, focusing on remote work challenges and the importance of guiding principles, documentation, and sponsorship for career growth.

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

USENIX

Principled Performance Analytics

Explore innovative analytical methods for high-fidelity insights in distributed systems, focusing on performance analytics, statistical approaches, and practical applications in complex services at scale.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 10 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Automated Operating System and Environment Certification at LinkedIn - Reducing Toil and Increasing Velocity

Automated OS certification at LinkedIn: Reducing toil, increasing velocity. Discusses project evolution, challenges, and early results in enhancing certification processes across data centers and Azure.

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

USENIX

How We Survived - and Thrived - During The Pandemic and Helped Millions of Students Learn Remotely

Discover how McGraw Hill applied 'Upstream Thinking' to thrive during the pandemic, scaling services and implementing SRE principles to support millions of remote learners without compromising security or incurring high costs.

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

USENIX

The 'Success' in SRE Is Silent

Strategies for demonstrating ROI in SRE and availability work, addressing challenges and potential regulatory issues to ensure continued investment and positive outcomes.

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