Moderator: Emil Stolarsky, Increase
Panelists: Andrew Ellam; Niall Murphy, Stanza; Joan O'Callaghan, Udemy; Avleen Vig
Emil Stolarsky, Increase
Emil is an engineer at Increase where he works on building modern banking infrastructure. Before that, he was at companies such as Wave Mobile Money, DigitalOcean, and Shopify, working on everything from building data centres in Sub-Saharan Africa to caching & performance optimizations in the cloud. In addition to speaking at & organising a number of conferences, he was a contributor to Seeking SRE and co-authored 97 Things Every SRE Should Know.
Andrew Ellam[node:field-speakers-institution]
Andrew is a software engineer turned Technical Program Manager turned manager. He ran his own businesses for a while, worked for startups and scaleups and for big tech companies.
Niall Murphy, Stanza
Niall is the CEO of Stanza Systems, has occupied various engineering and leadership roles in Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and is the instigator of the best-selling & prize-winning Site Reliability Engineering, which he hopes at some stage to live down. His most recent book is Reliable Machine Learning, with Todd Underwood and many others.
Joan O'Callaghan, Udemy
Joan O'Callaghan is a Monitoring and Observability Director at Udemy. She has worked in SRE and Incident Management and M&O (in one form or another), for many, many years. She likes to host and write blameless incident reviews and take long walks on the beach where she has imaginary arguments with people that don't like resilience as much as she does. She is always very happy when she meets people more paranoid than her.
Avleen Vig, Twilio
Avleen is one of Twilio’s Architects for SRE. Over his luminous 20+ year career he has shone a light on the importance of making reliability a core part of the work done by all software engineering teams. When he isn’t working on improving systems designs and reviewing code, you can often find him outside with a telescope and a hot cup of tea.
author = {Emil Stolarsky and Andrew Ellam and Niall Murphy and Joan O{\textquoteright}Callaghan and Avleen Vig},
title = {Panel Discussion: Is Reliability a Luxury Good?},
year = {2024},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}