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Lightningat SREcon24 Americas · 2024-03-18..03-20· [engineering-leadership]

speakers

name:Laura Nolan

name:Chitkala Sethuraman

github:chitkalas

name:Prathamesh Sonpatki

links:none on file

name:J. Paul Reed

mastodon:@jpaulreed@mastodon.social

x:GauntletWizard

name:Cail Young

links:none on file

name:Tushar Gupta

links:none on file

name:Adam Mckaig

links:none on file

name:Corey Quinn

github:quinnypig

resources

video:https://youtu.be/pavDzPLGVrY

slides:none on file

summary

Nine micro-updates: cognition research shows experts use recognition and mental simulation with limits of three moving parts and ~six steps so planning lets you simulate under no pressure; server manageability explains BMC stacks (U-Boot → Linux → apps), move toward DCRM modules and Rust for safety; a newsletter publishes 14 SRE stories emphasizing patience, automation and empathy; a ticket case shows evidence collection can reverse a blame narrative; Chrome now enforces name constraints for user CAs and recommends cert-manager experimental and poisoning deny-email constraints; SLO offsets are a dubious carbon-offset analogy; BGP for on‑prem K8s uses Calico/MetalLB, ECMP, BFD and route reflectors; centralizing ops teams reuses common “below‑the‑waterline” work; generative AI warns to experiment early while protecting sovereignty.

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