Conf42 Site Reliability Engineering 2021 - Online

September 30 2021

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Schedule

Event	Time	Location
Premiere Show introducing all talks and sponsors		Livestream
Keynote: Elephant in the Blameless War Room - Accountability Emily Arnott Blog Content Writer at Blameless		Livestream
Keynote: Evangelizing the SRE mindset: Building a culture of reliability and ownership Cristina Buenahora Bustamante Founding Engineer at Cortex		Livestream
Keynote: Improving resilience through continuous SLO validation using chaos engineering Uma Mukkara CEO at Chaos Native		Livestream
Keynote: Pragmatic Incident Response: 5 lessons learned from failures Robert Ross CEO at FireHydrant		Livestream
Keynote: SLI Negotiation Tactics for Engineers Alayshia Knighten Team Lead, Onboarding Engineering at Honeycomb.io		Livestream
Keynote: How to Empower Developers to Troubleshoot K8s Independently Itiel Shwartz CTO at Komodor		Livestream
Keynote: Keys or Certs for SSH Access? Why should I care? Allen Vailliencourt Solutions Engineer at Teleport		Livestream
Keynote: Improve Resilience with automated chaos engineering Gunnar Grosch Developer Advocate at AWS		Livestream
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Keynotes

Elephant in the Blameless War Room - Accountability

How do you reconcile the ideals of blamelessness with a demand for blame? When is accountability actually required? We'll navigate these challenges by explaining: How to empathize with blameful people - we'll look at how their goals align with yours, even if their methods are archaic How to skilfully respond to a demand for blame - blameful peoples' goals can be achieved blamelessly -...

Emily Arnott

Blameless

Christina Tan

Blameless

Evangelizing the SRE mindset: Building a culture of reliability and ownership

Most engineers respond to messages or emails from an SRE or security engineer with disdain. They often see the work of these teams as another hurdle to getting code out the door and a tax on their productivity. We know they’re wrong. We need to spread the SRE mindset and approach to all engineering teams and pivot their thinking towards “How can I build a solution that is resilient, secure, and...

Cristina Buenahora Bustamante

Cortex

Improving resilience through continuous SLO validation using chaos engineering

In this session, Uma Mukkara will talk about how Site Reliability Engineers can use Chaos Engineering to do continuous validation of Service-level Objectives and thereby improve the resilience of the systems they are operating on.

Uma Mukkara

Chaos Native

Pragmatic Incident Response: 5 lessons learned from failures

Incident response is overwhelming. So where do you start? There's a lot of advice out there, but it's mostly theories that aren't taking reality into account. So how do you get a process in place that actually works and scales? In this session, FireHydrant CEO and Co-Founder, Robert Ross, will share stories (good and bad) from his experience as an SRE and what 5 pragmatic tips he’s learned...

Robert Ross

FireHydrant

SLI Negotiation Tactics for Engineers

Service level indicators are quantitative measures of a service, which in turn, are measured by SLOs. This is not the talk you think it is. As Engineers, we have our own SLIs, which are Survival Level Indicators, that measure and define if we are okay or not okay at a job. What happens when the rockstar engineer, who performs essential task A and B, hasn't taken vacation in 9 months? Over time,...

Alayshia Knighten

Honeycomb.io

How to Empower Developers to Troubleshoot K8s Independently

In the “good old days”, Ops/IT teams were responsible for handling issues when applications crash. In the world of microservices, however, developers are required to take on a bigger role in identifying and fixing issues in production, sometimes without having proper tools, privileges or even training. So how can we empower developers to troubleshoot efficiently and independently? Join us as...

Itiel Shwartz

Komodor

Keys or Certs for SSH Access? Why should I care?

Today's software developers, DevOps teams, SRE's, and SysAdmins are familiar with the concept of public-key cryptography for gaining access to remote resources but using public and private keys has its limitations and can be difficult to scale and manage. Consider leveraging short-term certificates for SSH access over keys and rest easy! This talk will go over the pros and cons of using keys vs...

Allen Vailliencourt

Teleport

Improve Resilience with automated chaos engineering

The transition into more complex systems is accelerating, and chaos engineering has proved to be a great-to-have option in our toolbox to handle this complexity. But the speed at which we're developing and deploying makes it hard to keep up through manual chaos experiments, so we turn to automation. In this session, we'll look at how automated chaos experiments help us cover a more extensive...

Gunnar Grosch

AWS

TRACKS:

observability processes tools culture best practices lessons learned

Track: observability

Peek into Observability from testers lens

Parveen Khan

ThoughtWorks

Go global or go home! Monitoring your platform from multiple locations

Andrei Danilov

Typeform

The Murphy's Laws of Observability

Dave McAllister

Splunk

Observability in Serverless Application

Ozioma Uzoegwu

AWS

System State Clustering using eBPF data

Sujith Samuel

Ericsson

Investigating Performance Issues In Microservices Arch. With Distributed Tracing

Dotan Horovits

Logz.io

Improve observability and operational performance for your container workloads

Suraj Muraleedharan

AWS

Track: processes

Reducing Trauma in Production with SLOs and Chaos Engineering

Julie Gunderson

Gremlin

Mandi Walls

PagerDuty

Incident Response, Incident Management, and Alerts - Where do they fit in CloudOps

Chris Riley

Splunk

Shift Left your Performance Testing

Hari Krishnan

Polarizer Technologies

Lean Product Development Through SLOs

Josh Armitage

Contino

One Metric to Rule them All: Cycle Time

Yishai Beeri

LinearB

Avoiding Goodhart's Law - Use SLO's as Tools Not Cudgels

Marco Coulter

Tech-Whisperer.com

Track: tools

Self-service PR-based automated Terraform

Andrew Kirkpatrick

PartnerStack

Keep your code safe during the development path using Opensource tools

Filipi Pires

Talkdesk

Level-up Your DevOps with GitHub Actions and Kubernetes

Rob Richardson

Cyral

Instant Self-contained Development Environments for Everyone

Yshay Yaacobi

Livecycle

Deploy N applications to N clusters using Argo CD ApplicationSet

Dewan Ahmed

Red Hat

How To Use Voice AI For Incident Reporting, Monitoring and Alerts

Arthur Grishkevich

Dasha.ai

Track: culture

Sustainable Incident Management for happy SRE teams

Ajuna Kyaruzi

Datadog

Don't Panic! Effective Incident Response

Quintessence Anx

PagerDuty

Games We Play to Improve on Incident Response

Austin King

OpsDrill.com

Fixing Broken Windows: Dealing with Legacy Systems, Poor Quality and Gaps

Dmitry Vinnik

Facebook

Track: best practices

Improve Your Automation to Reduce Toil

Mandi Walls

PagerDuty

Building Near Real-time Fully Managed Analytics Solution with Minimum to No Coding on AWS

Shubhankar Sumar

AWS

Chasing the Grail

Dmitry Chuyko

BellSoft

Engineering Reliable Mobile Applications

Pranjal Deo

Google

Let the machines optimize the machines: ML-driven automated performance tuning

Stefano Doni

Akamas

Pitfalls of Infrastructure as Code (And how to avoid them!)

Tim Davis

env0

Enterprise SRE adoption framework

Vishnu Vardhan Chikoti

Fanatics

Microsoft SQL Server HA/DR on AWS

Asif Mujawar

AWS

5 Levels of High Availability: from Multi-instance to Hybrid Cloud

Rafal Leszko

Hazelcast

Pragmatic Site Reliability Engineering for Kubernetes in the Cloud

Joshua Arvin Lat

NuWorks Interactive Labs

Track: lessons learned

Top new CNCF projects to look out for

Annie Talvasto

CAST AI

Migrating a monolith to Cloud-Native and the stumbling blocks that you don’t know about

JJ Asghar

IBM

Reliability Nirvana

Daniel Selans

Batch

What we learned from reading 100+ Kubernetes Post-Mortems

Noaa Barki

Datree

Shimon Tolts

Datree

Microservices above the Cloud - Designing the International Space Station for Reliability

Robert Barron

IBM

GitOps: yea or nay?

Ricardo Castro

FARFETCH

Fault isolation using shuffle sharding

Andrew Robinson

AWS

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