SREcon Talks & Presentations

USENIX

SLOs for Data-Intensive Services

Explore the journey of defining effective SLOs for data-intensive services, focusing on search engines. Learn about monitoring processes, consistency, and automated mitigation strategies for complex systems.

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

USENIX

Deploying SRE Training Best Practices to Production - How We SRE'ed Our SRE Education Program

Explore Google's SRE training program, featuring hands-on exercises in a safe environment. Learn how SRE principles were applied to improve the curriculum, minimize toil, and enhance reliability through automation and monitoring.

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

USENIX

Advanced Napkin Math - Estimating System Performance from First Principles

Learn to quickly estimate system performance using base rates and napkin math, enabling informed decision-making in technical discussions and design processes without building systems first.

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

USENIX

Control Theory for SRE

Learn to create a PID controller for autoscaling Kubernetes deployments, ensuring smooth scaling based on custom targets. Explore control theory principles and their application in SRE practices.

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

USENIX

My Life as a Solo SRE

Transforming engineering culture: One SRE's journey from chaos to improved reliability, featuring practical tips on implementing SLIs, reducing incident response times, and fostering organizational change.

• YouTube
• 26 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

The Pandemic and The Classroom - Enabling Education for Millions

Explore how Microsoft Teams adapted to enable remote education for millions during COVID-19, discussing challenges, solutions, and engineering strategies for large-scale online learning.

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

USENIX

A Fresh Look at Operational Debt

Explore a new model of operational debt in SRE, focusing on process gaps and risk. Learn to prioritize and address issues for improved service reliability and team collaboration.

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

USENIX

The Origins of USAA's Postmortem of the Week

Discover USAA's journey in establishing an IT-wide Postmortem Review meeting, with tips for implementing your own large-scale review process. Learn from their experiences and insights.

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

USENIX

How Our SREs Safeguard Nanosecond Performance - at Scale - in an Environment Built to Fail

Explore SRE principles in high-frequency trading, balancing innovation with risk management. Learn strategies for safeguarding nanosecond performance in a regulated, failure-prone environment at scale.

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

USENIX

SRE "Power Words" - The Lexicon of SRE as an Industry

Explore the impact of language in Site Reliability Engineering, examining key terms and their role in shaping industry practices and communication with stakeholders.

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

USENIX

When Systems Flatline - Enhancing Incident Response with Learnings from the Medical Field

Explore how medical field strategies can enhance incident response in tech systems, from algorithm-guided decisions to standardized protocols for effective management and resolution.

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

USENIX

Ceci N'est Pas un CPU Load

Explore the limitations of digital troubleshooting compared to analog electronics, and discover why our mental models for digital systems are constrained.

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

USENIX

Spike Detection in Alert Correlation at LinkedIn

Discover how LinkedIn uses spike detection in alert correlation to quickly identify root causes of outages in their complex microservices architecture, reducing false positives and engineer toil.

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