SREcon Talks & Presentations

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Pragmatic Automation

Explore pragmatic automation strategies for reducing toil in cloud operations, drawing insights from a large public cloud provider's experiences and applicable to various work environments.

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

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Tackling Kafka with a Small Team

Explore scaling Kafka with limited resources, covering challenges, failures, and tactical approaches for managing complex distributed systems in a fast-growing business environment.

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

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Creating a Code Review Culture

Explore best practices for implementing and improving code review processes, focusing on organizational culture, author communication, and reviewer strategies for high-quality software development.

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

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Keeping the Balance - Internet-Scale Load Balancing Demystified

Comprehensive overview of load balancing techniques across network layers, exploring technologies and tradeoffs for fast, reliable multi-region services at Internet scale.

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

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Zero to SRE

Transforming junior engineers into SREs: creating a supportive environment, fostering a 'Culture of Error', encouraging mentorship, and prioritizing skill development for successful transitions and career growth.

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

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SRE Classroom - How to Design a Distributed System in 3 Hours

Interactive workshop on designing distributed systems, covering scaling, failure handling, reliability, and consistency. Participants apply concepts to real-world scenarios using cloud components.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

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What Breaks Our Systems - A Taxonomy of Black Swans

Explore categories of unforeseen, catastrophic system failures and strategies to fortify against them, including capacity testing, incident management, and communication.

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

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Testing in Production at Scale

Explore real-world insights on implementing testing in production for large-scale microservices, focusing on architecture, capacity planning, and infrastructure components.

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

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The Curse of SRE Autonomy and How to Manage It

Explores challenges of SRE autonomy, tool diversity, and development duplication. Presents solutions using a widely-adopted internal tool's history, addressing selection autonomy and automation strategies.

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

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Complexity - The Crucial Ingredient in Your Kitchen

Explore how software engineering can learn from NASA's Challenger incident, drawing parallels to modern reliability challenges and navigating complexity in system architecture.

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

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Capacity Prediction in External Services

Learn to predict resource exhaustion in external systems using linear regression, enabling proactive planning and sizing for improved application performance.

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

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Optimizing for Learning

Explore cognitive science techniques to enhance SRE learning, incident response, and team collaboration. Optimize human observability for better system understanding and problem-solving.

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

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The Secret Lives of SREs - Controlling the Costs of Coordination across Remote Teams

Exploring hidden complexities in SRE incident response, revealing surprising findings on coordination strategies, tooling impacts, and adaptive choreography in managing service outages.

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

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Identifying Hidden Dependencies

Discover how Honeycomb improved system reliability through intentional node termination, uncovering bugs and progressing towards continuous experimentation for enhanced resilience and scalability.

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

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Continuously Improving Culture through Design Decisions

Explore how technical decisions shape DevOps culture, focusing on Two Sigma's COIN platform. Learn strategies for fostering collaboration, innovation, and community in tech environments.

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