SREcon Talks & Presentations

USENIX

Confessions of a Systems Engineer - Learning from My 20+ Years of Failure

Veteran systems engineer shares invaluable lessons from two decades of failures, offering insights on designing, running, and troubleshooting large-scale online services to help others avoid costly mistakes.

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

USENIX

Achieving Mutual TLS - Secure Pod-to-Pod Communication Without the Hassle

Explore secure pod-to-pod communication using Mutual TLS, focusing on certificate management, implementation in Golang and Java applications, and integration with Kubernetes for streamlined security.

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

USENIX

Confessions of a Systems Engineer - Learning from My 20+ Years of Failure

Insights from a seasoned systems engineer on designing and running large-scale online services, drawing from 20+ years of failures and lessons learned in the tech industry.

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

USENIX

Scaling Shopify's Multi-Tenant Architecture across Multiple Datacenters

Explore Shopify's journey from a single-database Rails app to a multi-datacenter setup, focusing on scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery strategies for multi-tenant architectures.

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

USENIX

Doorman - Global Distributed Client Side Rate Limiting

Explore Google's Doorman system for global distributed client-side rate limiting, coordinating resource usage across multiple clients to prevent capacity overload.

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

USENIX

Food for Thought - What Restaurants Can Teach Us about Reliability

Explore how restaurant operations parallel computer system reliability, drawing insights from dining experiences to enhance understanding of complex system management and fault tolerance.

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

USENIX

Cache for Cash - Speeding Up Production with Kafka and MySQL binlog

Optimize high-scale production systems with Kafka and MySQL binlog for fresh, fast data distribution. Learn to balance caching tradeoffs and improve performance across thousands of services.

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

USENIX

Taking Control of Metrics Growth and Cardinality - Tips for Maximizing Your Observability

Strategies for managing metrics growth and cardinality in cloud-native environments, focusing on best practices, KPIs, and team collaboration to enhance observability and streamline remediation processes.

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

USENIX

Beyond Goldilocks Reliability

Explore reliability engineering beyond traditional SRE practices. Learn about concrete models, underlying mechanisms, and new strategies to enhance service reliability and tackle complex challenges.

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

USENIX

Hard Problems We Handle in Incidents but Aren't Recognized

Exploring hidden challenges in incident management, including diagnostic work, coordination costs, and decision-making dilemmas, with insights for improved recognition and handling.

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

USENIX

Nine Questions to Build Great Infrastructure Automation Pipelines

Explore nine key questions for building effective infrastructure automation pipelines, focusing on modular design, intent-driven approaches, and seamless tool integration for continuous delivery.

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

USENIX

Automating Performance Tuning with Machine Learning

Explore machine learning-driven automation for optimizing Kubernetes microservices and JVM settings, enhancing performance, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness in complex tech stacks.

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

USENIX

Learning More from Complex Systems

Explore complex systems' traits and learn better approaches to incident analysis beyond linear root-cause methods. Gain insights from history, science, and philosophy to enhance understanding of resilience in modern organizations.

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

USENIX

Evolution of Incident Management at Slack

Explore Slack's evolution in incident management, covering strategies for handling numerous incidents, team-wide capability building, and future directions in maintaining platform reliability.

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

USENIX

Demystifying Machine Learning in Production - Reasoning about a Large-Scale ML Platform

Explore techniques for managing and improving reliability in large-scale machine learning production systems, focusing on common failure modes, best practices, and practical strategies for SREs.

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