Niall Murphy, Stanza, and Kurt Andersen, Clari
Format: AMA Session
Are you confused by the alphabet soup: PRRs, ICS, MTTR, o11y, SLOs, SLIs? Is SRE the same thing as DevOps? Will doing everything the SRE books say lead to success and a good night's sleep oncall?
This discussion session is the place to bring any and every question you may have about getting started as an SRE. Expect breadth rather than depth.
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.
By day, Kurt works as an infrastructure software architect at Clari. In addition, he serves on the USENIX Board and has had the pleasure to work with amazing people around the globe in the SREcon conferences. He also helps with the annual SRE survey and report that is graciously supported by Catchpoint.
author = {Niall Murphy and Kurt Andersen},
title = {A Guided Introduction to {SRE}},
year = {2025},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}