SREcon17 Europe Conference Topic: New to SRE

This conference topic category is appropriate for those new to the SRE field or early in their SRE careers, but is also applicable to SREs of all levels.

SREcon: New SREs

Invited Talks

Wednesday, 09:00–09:40 PDT
Care and Feeding of SRE
Narayan Desai, Google
Wednesday, 09:40–10:20 PDT
Diversity and Inclusion in SRE: A Postmortem
Niall Richard Murphy, Google
Wednesday, 11:00–12:30 PDT
SRE 101
Laura Nolan, Google
Wednesday, 11:00–11:30 PDT
Globalizing SRE in a Walkup Culture
Bill Lincoln, Wayfair, Matt Coleman
Wednesday, 11:00–12:00 PDT
SRE Your gRPC—Building Reliable Distributed Systems (Illustrated with GRPC)
Grainne Sheerin, Google, Gabe Krabbe, Google
Wednesday, 11:30–12:00 PDT
Make Haste Slowly: Balancing SRE Diligence in Urgency Driven Organizations
Jason Hiltz-Laforge, Shopify
Wednesday, 12:00–12:30 PDT
Want to Solve Over-Monitoring and Alert Fatigue? Create the Right Incentives!
Kishore Jalleda, Yahoo, Inc.
Wednesday, 13:40–17:00 PDT
SRE Your gRPC—Building Reliable Distributed Systems (Workshop)
Grainne Sheerin, Google, Gabe Krabbe, Google, Lisa Carey, Google
Wednesday, 13:40–14:30 PDT
The Dangers of Being Overly-Paranoid
Ingrid Epure, Intercom
Wednesday, 14:30–15:00 PDT
Show Me the RIGHT Numbers! Are Our Users Happy?
Perry Statham, IBM
Wednesday, 15:40–16:10 PDT
Use Load Testing to Build a Proper Mental Model of Your Service
John Looney, Intercom
Wednesday, 16:10–17:00 PDT
Traffic Steering using Rum DNS @ LinkedIn
Abhijeet Rastogi, LinkedIn
Thursday, 09:00–09:50 PDT
Incident Command at the Edge
Lisa Phillips, Fastly
Thursday, 09:00–09:50 PDT
How We Try to Make a Lion Bulletproof; Setting Up SRE in a Global Financial Organization
Janna Brummel, ING, Robin van Zijll, ING
Thursday, 09:50–10:20 PDT
From Firefighting to Proactive Work: the Journey of a Small Infrastructure Team in a Hyper Growth Environment
Alex Gerlic, Intercom
Thursday, 10:50–11:45 PDT
Building a Culture of Reliability
Arup Chakrabarti, PagerDuty
Thursday, 10:50–11:45 PDT
Case Study: Lessons Learned from Our First Worldwide Outage
Yoav Cohen, Imperva Incapsula
Thursday, 11:45–12:30 PDT
When Trouble Comes to Town
Michael Gorven, Facebook
Thursday, 11:45–12:30 PDT
Tech Leadership in SRE
Sean Rees, Google
Thursday, 13:30–14:30 PDT
Building an SRE Capability Inside a Large Organization
Sriram Gollapalli, Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Thursday, 14:30–15:00 PDT
The Why, What, and How of Starting an SRE Engagement
Richard Clawson, Microsoft Azure, Josh Gilliland, Microsoft Azure
Friday, 09:00–09:30 PDT
Why Work with a Tech Writer?
Betsy (Adrienne) Beyer, Google
Friday, 09:30–10:30 PDT
Psychological Safety in SRE Teams
John Looney, Intercom
Friday, 11:00–11:30 PDT
Service with an Angry Smile: Passive-Aggressive Behavior in SRE
Lauri Apple, Zalando
Friday, 11:30–12:00 PDT
The Cult(Ure) of Strength
Emily Gorcenski, Simple
Friday, 13:00–14:00 PDT
Monitoring Design Principles
Theo Schlossnagle, Circonus
Friday, 14:40–15:30 PDT
Have You Tried Turning It off and Turning It on Again?
Tanya Reilly, Google
Friday, 15:30–16:20 PDT
100 Teams, 100 Ways to Fail
John Keiser, Microsoft Azure, Ben Broderick Phillips, Microsoft
Friday, 16:20–17:10 PDT
Persistent SRE Antipatterns: Pitfalls On the Road to Creating a Successful SRE Program Like Netflix and Google
Jonah Horowitz, Stripe, Blake Bisset

Panels

Friday, 13:00–14:00 PDT
Panel: AMA for New SREs