SREcon Talks & Presentations

USENIX

Adaptive Concurrency Control for Mixed Analytical Workloads

Explore adaptive concurrency control for real-time analytics, addressing timeouts in mixed workloads. Learn iterative improvements for better user experience in query services.

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

USENIX

Seeing the Invisible - Two Years at Wikipedia with W3C's Network Error Logging

Discover how Wikipedia uses W3C's Network Error Logging to detect user-facing outages in real-time. Learn about implementation strategies and case studies of outages missed by traditional monitoring methods.

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

USENIX

Watering the Roots of Resilience - Learning from Failure with Decision Trees

Explore how SREs can align mental models with system reality using resilience stress testing and decision trees. Learn practical tools for documenting, visualizing, and improving complex software systems.

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

USENIX

Lessons Learned from 7 Years of Running Developer Platforms

Insights on platform engineering best practices, including product management, developer retention, trust-building, and re-skilling ops staff, drawn from diverse organizations' experiences over the past decade.

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

USENIX

Hell Is Other Platforms

Explore the pitfalls of blindly adopting others' platform strategies. Learn to retain agency, identify needs, and avoid common mistakes in platform engineering for your unique business context.

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

USENIX

On the Wings of SREs - J.P. Morgan's Journey into the Cloud

Explore J.P. Morgan's transition to public cloud, focusing on SRE's role in overcoming regulatory, technical, and organizational challenges while ensuring stability and reliability.

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

USENIX

Scaling Telemetry Systems with Streaming

Explore the evolution of Honeycomb's Kafka cluster and telemetry systems, covering scaling strategies, infrastructure choices, and best practices for handling 10x data volume growth.

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

USENIX

OpenTelemetry Metrics 101

Demystifying OpenTelemetry metrics: Learn about different metric instruments, their implementation, and how they can enhance your understanding of system performance and error rates.

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

USENIX

How to Take Prometheus Planet Scale - Massively Large Scale Metrics Installations

Explore scaling Prometheus for massive metrics installations, covering field hint indices, query push down, GitOps deployment, and lessons learned from eBay's journey to planet-scale observability.

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

USENIX

Incident Archaeology - Extracting Value from Paperwork and Narratives

Discover how Spotify transforms incident reports into valuable insights for improving system operations and work processes, extracting meaningful data from seemingly mundane paperwork.

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

USENIX

Building an APM with OpenTelemetry and OpenSource

Explore building an open-source APM using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Jaeger. Learn implementation strategies, risks, and upcoming improvements in the OTel community for cost-effective application performance monitoring.

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

USENIX

Chaos-Driven Development - TDD for Distributed Systems

Explore chaos experimentation as a test-driven development approach for distributed systems, enhancing reliability and validating changes throughout the software lifecycle.

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

USENIX

SRE in Transition - From Startup to Established Business

Explore how SRE teams evolve as startups grow, focusing on organizational changes, advocacy strategies, and overcoming technical debt to support rapid scaling and maintain operational excellence.

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

USENIX

The Revolution Will Not Be Terraformed - SRE and the Anarchist Style

Exploring SRE as a cultural force for change, examining its evolution and potential to drive reliability in organizations while drawing parallels to social movements and people-centric approaches.

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

USENIX

Weeks of Debugging Can Save You Hours of TLA+

Explore TLA+ for reliable system design through a hands-on approach, solving a subtle concurrency issue to demonstrate its power in preventing critical failures and reducing debugging time.

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