SRECon24 Report
SRECon has gathered SRE and systems engineers in March this year, but if you missed it - talks were recently uploaded to youtube on Usenix channel.
Here is Codereliant's Top 5 recommendations of what to watch:
📖 Product Reliability for Google Maps
Micah Lerner and Joe Abrams
Learn how Google Maps, the app with over 1 billion monthly users, tackled subtle user experience issues that traditional server monitoring couldn't catch. Learn about their journey towards user-centric reliability and the lessons they learned along the way.
📖 Sharding: Growing Systems from Node-scale to Planet-scale
Adam Mckaig
This talk goes deep into workload sharding: when it makes sense, what problem it has, and how it can solve common scalability and reliability issues in your systems. You will learn fundamental sharding patterns like worker pools, read replicas, horizontal and vertical sharding, and multi-cell/multi-region architectures.
📖 Teaching SRE
Mikey Dickerson
This talk has an interesting insights into training a new wave of system engineers. The author designed and taught a class for computer science majors called "Managing Complex Systems". Students work on a project, progressing through a series of assignments that cover key SRE topics such as setting up infrastructure, monitoring, on-call rotations, capacity planning, incident response, etc.
📖 Deciphering Cache Inconsistencies in a Distributed Environment
Akashdeep Goel and Prudhviraj Karumanchi
Probably every SRE has their "caching" story. Engineers from Netflix share their experience debugging a critical issue with their distributed, replicated key-value store called EVCache, which threatened to delay a major global product launch. The incident walkthrough highlights the challenges and rewards of operating and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems in a high-stakes production environment.
📖 Meeting the Challenge of Burnout
Christina Maslach
While this is not a technical talk, I think we don't talk about this topic enough. A pioneering researcher on job burnout, clarifies the concept of burnout, its causes, and potential solutions. She emphasizes that burnout is an occupational phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stressors that have not been successfully managed, rather than an individual medical condition.
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