Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Courses and Certifications

USENIX

Overcoming Challenges in Serving Large Language Models - SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa

Explore hosting GPT models in Kubernetes, covering GPU sharding, tensor parallelism, and model optimization. Learn trade-offs between latency, accuracy, and resource allocation, with a live demo showcasing performance.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Conf42

Observability: One of the Strongest Muscles for SRE

Explore how observability enhances SRE practices, improving system reliability and performance through effective monitoring and data analysis techniques.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Conf42

Resilient Systems and Teams - A CTO's Blueprint for SRE Excellence

Discover a CTO's blueprint for building resilient systems and teams, covering SRE implementation, on-call strategies, and effective communication for startups and growing organizations.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

GeeCON Conference

Canary Monitoring at Scale: Beyond SRE World - Lecture

Explore canary monitoring's importance in SRE, its implementation, benefits, and applications beyond monitoring. Gain practical insights for production environments.

• YouTube
• 35 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

The Ticking Time Bomb of Observability Expectations - SREcon24 Americas

Uncover the pitfalls of "monitor everything" and vendor-driven observability practices. Learn cost-effective principles for guiding your approach to system monitoring and visibility.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Patching Your Way to Compliance with a Small Team and Technical Debt

Learn strategies to overcome system patching challenges with limited resources, focusing on breaking the cycle of technical debt and meeting security compliance requirements.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Logs Told Us It Was Kernel - It Wasn't: Investigating Application Performance Issues

Uncover application performance mysteries, learn investigation techniques, and optimize code with cache-friendly practices and compilation flags for enhanced efficiency.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Conf42

Optimizing System Performance - Observability in Distributed Environments

Master observability fundamentals for distributed systems, covering the three pillars, key metrics, distributed tracing, and implementation strategies to optimize performance.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Technical Debt as Theory Building and Practice

Explore the connections between technical debt, housework, and infrastructure, learning strategies to understand, prioritize, and build coherent narratives around technical debt management.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Handling the Largest Domains Migration, Ever!

Discover the challenges and strategies behind Squarespace's unprecedented migration of over 10 million domains from Google Domains, exploring the technical complexities of this massive infrastructure project.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Learning from Incidents at Scale: Actually Doing Cross-Incident Analysis

Discover how to scale incident learning through cross-incident analysis, leveraging review programs to gain insights across quarters, years, products, and technologies for improved sociotechnical systems.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Per Aspera ad Productum: Turning Processes into Products

Discover how to boost team throughput by applying product management principles to SRE tools, transforming processes into effective products.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Tackling Slow Queries: A Practical Approach to Prevention and Correction

Discover a dual-component framework for tackling slow queries, covering preventive CI pipeline measures and corrective production monitoring actions to boost system reliability and performance.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Mitigating Against Large Scale Systemic Failures in E-Trading

Explore real-world examples of tail risks in electronic trading systems, understand limitations of common resiliency patterns, and discover alternative approaches to enhance system robustness.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

USENIX

Mapping a Better Future with STPA

Discover how Systems Theoretic Process Analysis (STPA) can identify system-level vulnerabilities before they cause outages, with real-world examples of preventing major incidents and building more resilient systems.

• YouTube
• 19 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video