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Milja Joki · Director of Engineering at Clearwater Storage
After 15 years complaining about how we can never find enough SREs to hire, I designed and taught a class for computer science majors called "Managing Complex Systems." I will talk about how this went and what it says about the long-term future of the industry. Mikey Dickerson was an SRE and manager at Google from 2006-2014. He led the ad-hoc healthcare.gov repair effort in 2013, then founded the U.S. Digital Service in the Obama White House. Currently, he does consulting work with Layer Aleph LLC, teaches part time, and operates an astronomical observatory in rural Arizona. ### 10:35 am–11:05 amShow moreShow less
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Carolina Concepción · Site Reliability Engineer at Fathom Analytics Group
Understanding how culture influences engineering practices is often a black box. At Meta, we focused on transforming our mantra of “move fast and break things,” to “move fast with stable infrastructure” by giving attention to the cultural elements of doing reliability work. This talk describes this process and decodes how to systematically measure the on-the-ground perspectives of engaging with reliability work so that we can have an informed perspective on how to best optimize the right degree of reliability. The audience will take away actionable practices that can be used to understand how to evaluate their underlying reliability culture, take data-driven approaches to measuring reliability sentiment and barriers and facilitators to performing the work, and identify practices that allowShow moreShow less
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Milja Joki · Director of Engineering at Clearwater Storage
High cardinality is a sin in observability metrics collection. Cardinality in the form of granular labels or other metadata can cause exponential growth in your observability time-series storage and compute resources; costing money and slowing down queries. It's not always economical nor practical to collect all possible metrics with all possible labels and then worry about how to extract value using queries after the fact. Sure, we want as much granularity as possible in our observability data, but it's a trade-off, we need to be strategic in using metric cardinality to get the granularity needed to discover and remediate problems. This talk will focus on presenting different strategies to constrain the impact of high metrics cardinality referencing applicable open source Prometheus metriShow moreShow less
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Marcus Mccoy · Head of Platform at Kestrel Labs
What you can see depends on where you stand. Your vantage point plays a big part in how you work, what you think is important, and how you interpret what's going on around you. Even your job title or team name can influence–and limit!–how you see the world. It's easy to find yourself stuck: no longer learning, polishing a service nobody else cares about, or wondering why it's so hard to get anything done outside your own team. A change in perspective can change what you think is important, how you influence the decisions that you care about, and even what you think is possible for yourself. In this talk, we'll look at how to get a broader view.Show moreShow less
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