Yvonne Lam and Mike Rembetsy, Bloomberg
Format: Breakout Group Discussion
Technical debt—decisions made to deliver in the short term with costs in the longer term—has not traditionally been seen as an SRE concern, but it should be. SRE teams with responsibility for production services generally need to contend with technical debt in the software they create (monitoring, automation, and so on) as well as being on the sharp end of many of the consequences of technical debt in the services they run. What are your experiences of technical debt as an SRE? How have you managed to cope with or to reduce technical debt?
Michael Rembetsy is the Global Head of Network Engineering and Operations at Bloomberg. His teams are responsible for everything from the physical hardware to SRE’s who focus on the global connectivity for customers. Prior to Bloomberg, Michael was the VP of Infrastructure at Etsy.
author = {Yvonne Lam and Mike Rembetsey},
title = {Tech Debt},
year = {2025},
address = {Santa Clara, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}