SREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa BoF Schedule
Lead or attend a BoF! Meet with your peers! Present new work! Don't miss these special activities designed to maximize the value of your time at the conference. Birds-of-a-Feather sessions are very informal gatherings of persons interested in a particular topic.
Vendor BoFs
Want to demonstrate a new product or discuss your company's latest technologies with SREcon18 Europe attendees? Host a Vendor BoF! These sponsored one-hour sessions give companies a chance to talk about products and proprietary technology—and they include promotional benefits. Email sponsorship@usenix.org if you're interested in sponsoring a Vendor BoF.
Scheduling a BoF
It's not too late! To schedule a BoF, simply write the BoF title as well as your name and affiliation on the BoF board located in the registration area. If you have a description of your BoF you'd like posted on this web page, please schedule your BoF on the BoF board, then send its title, the organizer's name and affiliation, and the date, time, and location of the BoF to bofs@usenix.org with "SREcon18 Europe BoF" in the subject line.
| ROOM | CAPACITY | 20:00–21:00 | 21:00–22:00 |
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| Rheinlandsaal Ballroom A | 300 | Recruiting & Interviewing. What Works, What Doesn't & What Can Be Better? (Employer & Employee) |
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| Rheinlandsaal Ballroom BC | 300 | The Unspoken Challenges of Kubernetes (or: Do You Sell Socks Online) |
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| Hegel Room | 120 | How Do I Do Docs for SRE/DevOps? |
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| Leibniz Room | 120 |
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| ROOM | CAPACITY | 19:00–20:00 | 20:00–21:00 | 21:00–22:00 |
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| Rheinlandsaal Ballroom A | 300 | Pipeline Terminology |
Postmortems: Silver Lining Consortium |
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| Rheinlandsaal Ballroom BC | 300 | For Whom the Bill Tolls (Cloud Costing) |
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| Hegel Room | 120 |
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| Leibniz Room | 120 | SRE Approach to Supporting Single Tenant Environments at Scale |
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BoF Descriptions
SRE Author Q&A
Wednesday, 29 August, 20:00–21:00, Rheinlandsdaal Ballroom A
Q&A session with the following authors:
- Stephen Thorne, The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE
- Jennifer Petoff, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
- David Blank-Edelman, Seeking SRE: Conversations About Running Production Systems at Scale
SRE Training
Thursday, 30 August, 20:00–21:00, Hegel Room
Organizer: Jennifer Petoff, Google Ireland
A discussion on how to best get your SREs up to speed. This is relevant both to training new engineers on your organisation's systems, as well as to instilling good SRE practices in junior engineers or those who come to SRE from different roles.
Prometheus and OpenMetrics Monitoring
Thursday, 30 August, 19:00–20:00, Hegel Room
Organizer: Ben Kochie, GitLab Monitoring Lead, Prometheus Team Member
In this BoF we will discuss metrics-based monitoring, Prometheus, and how you can use metrics to fulfill your SRE monitoring needs. Prometheus is a metrics-based monitoring system, providing application and system metrics and metrics-based alerting. It grew out of the needs of SREs. Prometheus has also spawned the OpenMetrics project, a vendor neutral standard for application metrics.
SRE Approach to Supporting Single Tenant Environments at Scale
Thursday, 30 August, 19:00–20:00, Leibniz Room
Organizer: Jason Wik, VMware, Inc.
Open discussion on solving the challenge of applying common SRE principles and tools to support thousands of uniquely configured single tenant environments. Implementing Alert Correlation and AI principles to improve automation and the quality of escalated alerts.