SREcon Talks & Presentations

USENIX

Unleashing Generative AI - Improving Developer Productivity in SRE

Explore how SRE teams can leverage Generative AI to automate tasks, boost productivity, and reduce burnout. Learn strategies for integrating AI in code reviews, testing, and deployment processes.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

From "Keeping the Lights On" to "Designing the LEDs" - A Detailed Review of Our Journey Transforming 500+ Engineers

Detailed journey of transforming 500+ engineers to embrace SRE principles, focusing on culture change, observability, and client experience measurement at Standard Chartered Bank.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Challenges of Managing Real-Time Financial Market Data Storage

Explore Bloomberg's journey in managing real-time financial market data storage, from local disk to cloud. Learn about custom solutions, challenges, and lessons in handling 300 billion daily events.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Multicloud and the Chamber of Secrets

Exploring strategies for secure secret management in multicloud environments, balancing availability and security while meeting auditor requirements and engineer needs.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Mastering Chaos - Achieving Fault Tolerance with Observability-Driven Prioritized Load Shedding

Explore Aperture, an open-source tool for observability-driven prioritized load shedding in microservices, addressing metastable failures and enabling graceful degradation of non-critical services.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Fighting Financial Crimes as an SRE

Explore technologies and strategies used by SREs to combat financial crimes, focusing on innovative approaches and best practices in the field of regulatory technology.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Start Small, Scale Big - Building and Scaling Platforms and SRE Culture at Startups

Insights on building and scaling SRE teams and platforms in startups, focusing on principles, practical learnings, and strategies to handle growing user demands in dynamic environments.

• YouTube
• 42 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Better Observability with No Code Changes

Discover techniques for enhancing application observability without modifying code. Learn to identify key functions for instrumentation and use OpenTelemetry's Javaagent for configuration-based runtime visibility.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

From Push to Pull - Managing Mutable Infrastructure at a Global Scale

Evolving deployment infrastructure from push to pull model in a massive hybrid cloud environment, addressing challenges of mutable infrastructure and technical debt for SRE teams.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Functional Resonance Analysis - Diagramming Your System

Explore the Functional Resonance Analysis Method to model complex systems, understand their interactions, and identify sources of success and risks in constantly changing environments.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

How the Sony PlayStation Network Does SRE

Explore Sony Interactive Entertainment's SRE practices for PlayStation Network, including regional approaches, COVID-19 challenges, and PS5 launch success strategies.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Observability in the MLOps Lifecycle with Prometheus

Explore MLOps monitoring with Prometheus, covering ML deployment challenges, data drift, and model metrics. Learn to enhance existing systems and integrate with tools like Flyte, Seldon Core, and FastAPI.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Beyond Observability - Aligning Technology Performance to Business Outcomes

Explore the integration of business intelligence and observability to create a comprehensive feedback loop, aligning technology performance with business outcomes and customer satisfaction in real-time.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

Giving Away Your Secrets - Opening Metrics Up to Users

Explore methods for providing users direct visibility into platform metrics, enhancing problem-solving capabilities and reducing support load. Learn approaches for different scenarios and common challenges.

• YouTube
• 38 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk

USENIX

An SRE Guide to Linux Kernel Upgrades

Demystifying Linux kernel releases and providing strategies for regular, low-risk upgrades to enhance system security and stability while dispelling common misconceptions about kernel updates.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• On-Demand
• Conference Talk