Case Study: Adopting SRE Principles at StackOverflow

Adopting SRE principles at sites other than "unicorn companies" can be a challenge. In this talk I’ll review our experience trying to adopt SRE principles at StackExchange.com/ StackOverflow.com. The failures are as educational as the successes. I’ll cover a number of tools that are publicly available, and techniques that work well at smaller companies. These include monitoring solutions like Boson, and sections of The Practice of Cloud System Administration that can be used to educate others about the SRE ways.

Tom Limoncelli works in New York City at Stack Exchange, home of ServerFault.com and StackOverflow.com. He tweets and blogs at everythingsysadmin.com. His new book, The Practice of Cloud System Administration, is an SRE/DevOps look at system administration). http://the-cloud-book.com.

Tom is a frequent speaker/keynote at both enterprise and web-scale conferences (SpiceWorks, LISA, LOPSA-East, CascadiaIT, NLUUG).