SREcon Talks & Presentations

USENIX

Sublinear Scaling in Practice - The 1k SRE Project

Explore Google's SRE team's approach to sublinear scaling, automation, and cultural shifts for managing 1000+ services efficiently without increasing staff.

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

USENIX

Designing Resilient Data Pipelines

Strategies for resilient data pipelines: observability, immutable inputs, declarative pipelines, and data validation. Reduce operational complexity, update risks, and accuracy concerns in complex systems.

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

USENIX

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

USENIX

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

USENIX

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - The 3 Learnings of an SRE

Explore core SRE principles, focusing on incident management, monitoring, and proactive approaches. Gain insights from a young engineer's journey transitioning from academia to industry.

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

USENIX

Building Actionable Code Ownership

Discover Pinterest's scalable API ownership framework, designed to manage 1700+ endpoints across 70+ teams, addressing challenges and implementing effective solutions for large-scale code management.

• YouTube
• 15 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

Ten Persistent SRE Antipatterns - Pitfalls on the Road to a Successful SRE Program

Explore common pitfalls in Site Reliability Engineering and learn strategies to build successful SRE programs, drawing insights from industry leaders like Netflix and Google.

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

USENIX

Making the Most of Your SRE Toolbox - Bootstrapping Your SRE Team through Reuse

Explore strategies for repurposing existing tools and frameworks to establish an effective SRE organization, drawing from real-world experiences in building comprehensive delivery pipelines.

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

USENIX

Principles of Chaos Engineering

Explore principles of Chaos Engineering to improve resilience in distributed systems. Learn techniques for surfacing inherent chaos and building confidence in system behavior at scale.

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

USENIX

I'm an SRE Lead! Now What? How to Bootstrap and Organize Your SRE Team

Practical guide for new SRE leads on organizing teams, managing expectations, and implementing effective strategies. Covers phased approaches, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid in SRE journey.

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

USENIX

DNSControl - A DSL for DNS as Code from StackOverflow.com

Explore DNSControl, a DNS DSL and compiler enabling DevOps practices for DNS management. Learn how StackOverflow.com automates complex configurations, simplifies updates, and enhances reliability.

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

USENIX

Challenges of Starting an SRE Team from Scratch in an Enterprise

Insights on building an SRE team in a large enterprise, addressing challenges, establishing standards, and focusing on business priorities like security and cloud cost control.

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

USENIX

When - Bin - Sh Attacks - Revisiting Automate All the Things

Explores challenges and impacts of pervasive automation in SRE, discussing human factors, potential harm, and strategies for effective implementation in complex socio-technical systems.

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

USENIX

The Smallest Possible SRE Team

Strategies for maximizing SRE impact with limited resources. Learn to leverage data, tools, and communication for effective small-scale SRE implementation and organizational influence.

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