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I'll be livetweeting @mipsytipsy's talk after lunch on monitoring vs observability and more. #SREcon
@mipsytipsy "I don't get my speaker's notes because I arrived a bit late, but I do get a unicorn instead, and I'm happy with that." -- @mipsytipsy #SREcon
"In the beginning, people wrote software for users, and we were motivated to fix it, because they would complain to us." #SREcon
I’ll be live tweeting an Ethics in Computing talk from #srecon here momentarily so feel free to mute this thread.
Ethics in Computing: A Young Profession Coping with Ethical Debt
Ethics in Computing: A Young Profession Coping with Ethical Debt
Theo Schlossnagle starts by taking about the need to be outraged on stage. I know this feel. “It’s hard not to be angry when things happen every day” (paraphrased)
The word “deontology “ just appeared on the slide so buckle in.
Next up in Track 1 at #SREcon is @damonedwards on brownfield SRE in enterprises!
@damonedwards "You may think, 'I don't work in an enterprise', but you will eventually when your company becomes successful enough." --@damonedwards
You'll have multiple business lines, acquisitions, generations of tech debt... #SREcon
You'll have multiple business lines, acquisitions, generations of tech debt... #SREcon
We see a lot of companies saying they're doing every buzzword. But when you look behind the scenes and talk to the ops folks, they're squeezed between the "DevOps/digital transformation" groups pushing to move faster, vs. locking things down from audit/security. #SREcon
Closing out #QConNYC in the chaos track is @otterbook on "turning it off and on again". He's promised to make my life "interesting" as a livetweeter so let's see how this goes.
@otterbook .@otterbook also has the best pre-talk dramatic/heroic amp-up music, which I'm digging. #QConNYC
This is going to be a very high audience participation talk, and is an experimental talk, says @otterbook. #QConNYC
After lunch, I'll be livetweeting an #SREcon talk on productionizing machine learning services by Google SREs @salim and @villaviejac, in their professional capacities... [ed: and I saw some 🔥🔥🔥 slides about ML privacy & ethics in their dress rehearsal so this gonna be good]
They are SREs but not necessarily ML scientists/researchers.
Data about what can go wrong has been gathered from 40+ interviews with varying teams. #SREcon
Data about what can go wrong has been gathered from 40+ interviews with varying teams. #SREcon
Myths: "machine learning is a black box." "you rarely have to rollback." "ML based monitoring is like other alerting." All nope. #SREcon
Operational Excellence in April Fool's pranks, by @yesthattom #srecon
2015, April 1, 1023 UTC: stackoverflow enabled an easter egg.
#srecon
#srecon
But we rolled back, and it was fine. Let's talk about reliable easter egg/April fool's features.
#srecon
#srecon
Next up, following neatly from incident response: @wcgallego on "Architecting a Technical Postmortem"
#srecon
#srecon
I'm a Systems Engineer at Etsy. Run many postmortems.
- Database fall over
- Bad deploys
- The time everyone got sick
- Coffeemakers overflowed
Everything had something to learn. #srecon
- Database fall over
- Bad deploys
- The time everyone got sick
- Coffeemakers overflowed
Everything had something to learn. #srecon
Questions:
- who has never done a postmortem before?
- why do we have postmortems? (think about this through the talk)
Ask these before every meeting. They are our story times. #srecon
- who has never done a postmortem before?
- why do we have postmortems? (think about this through the talk)
Ask these before every meeting. They are our story times. #srecon
And lunch is done. 3 more talks before the closing plenaries.
Kicking off track 2 this afternoon, @jpaulreed on "Whispers in Chaos: Searching for Weak Signals in Incidents" #srecon
Kicking off track 2 this afternoon, @jpaulreed on "Whispers in Chaos: Searching for Weak Signals in Incidents" #srecon
Up Now: @lizthegrey and @adam7mck on Resolving Outages Faster with Better Debugging Strategies #SREcon
I work with Liz, Adam is a top guy. There's some exciting stuff in this talk. Listen up! #SREcon
Liz - 8+ years at Google, now CRE. Excited about sharing things we've learnt with the world.
Adam - 18mths at Google, SRE/DevOps type-person for 8-10 years. Excited to share things that blew his socks off when joining Google.
#SREcon
Adam - 18mths at Google, SRE/DevOps type-person for 8-10 years. Excited to share things that blew his socks off when joining Google.
#SREcon
Going to tipsy-tweet #SREcon lightning talks, probably not at my usual level of detail. Expect more editorializing and heckling!
p.s. see me up front if you want cider, the hotel doesn't seem to be serving it, and @ingridavendano and @Ana_M_Medina hooked me up with a 6-pack last night on a Safeway run. My win is your win too. 2 is my limit, so 4 are up for grabs. #SREcon
Also, obligatory note that it is 100% okay to not drink. Fuck alcohol culture etc. #SREcon
USDS, working on Veterans Administration. Combining organic devops teams from multiple applications into one single shared SRE team. #SREcon
Expanded from a few initial national priorities like healthcare.gov to hundreds of applications across a dozen plus agencies. #SREcon
First plenary talk: @nicolefv and @jezhumble on measurement. "If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter how fast you get there." #SREcon
Outline of the talk: (1) where am I going, (2) why do we care, (3) improve performance/quality, (4) measure performance, (5) culture & how to measure. #SREcon
