title	conference	date
AI IN SRE: HYPE VS REALITY IN 2026	AI SRE Summit 2026	2026-05-12
Panelists report concrete wins and limits: auto-generating postmortems, Slack-thread TLDRs and documentation-from-code cut toil and drop MTTD/MTTR; narrow… Talk on
What Handcrafted Servers Taught Us About Handcrafted Code	Enterprise AI Summit Spring 2026	2026-04-09
Argues that maintenance cost, not creation, defines software value and that mutability is the enemy of understanding; claims disposable AI‑generated snippets… Talk on
In praise of “normal engineers”	LDX3 London 2025	2025-06-16
Argues that excellence comes from systems not unicorn hires and claims a huge competitive advantage from designing for normal engineers who can ship, observe… Talk on
Build “boring” engineering orgs	Craft Conference 2025	2025-05-29
Argues that companies gain a competitive edge by making ordinary engineers productive through concrete changes: keep a short deploy interval (avoid six‑month… Talk on
AIOps: Prove It! An Open Letter to Vendors Selling AI for SREs	SREcon25 Americas	2025-03-25
Vendors selling AI for SREs must show data, failure modes, and exactly what was built and tested — not slogans like “your new SRE.” The talk demands concrete… Talk on
Keynote: The Socio-technical Elements that Make Good Platforms	Code BEAM America 2025	2025-03-06
Platform engineering works when teams own code in production, are on call for it, and get tooling and permission to change things; Honeycomb moves from one… Talk on
Observability Is Due for a Version Change; Are You Ready for It?	C3 Dev Festival 2024	2024-06-14
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Is It Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes)	GOTO Amsterdam 2024	2024-06-10
Argues that we need Observability 2.0: a single source of truth of arbitrarily wide structured log events from which you can derive metrics, logs, and traces… Talk on
Keynote: Observability is due for a version change; Are you ready for it?	CTO Craft Con: London 2024	2024-05-08
Argues that the industry is moving from metric/three-pillar Observability 1.0 to a breakingly different Observability 2.0 where a single source of truth is… Talk on
Is It Already Time To Version Observability? (Signs Point To Yes.)	SREcon24 Americas	2024-03-18
Argues observability needs a major-version bump: Observability 2.0 replaces fragmented metrics+logs+traces with a single source of truth of wide structured… Talk on
Compliance & Regulatory Standards Are NOT Incompatible with Modern Development..	SREcon24 Americas	2024-03-18
Argues that no law forbids practices like continuous deployment, observability-driven development, feature flags or testing in production and shows real-world… Talk on
.NET Rocks Live	NDC Porto 2023	2023-10-16
Claims that observability must use one wide structured event per request and that tracing should be span-based, not metric-only; recommends OpenTelemetry and… Talk on
Compliance & Regulatory Standards are NOT Incompatible with Modern Development	NDC Porto 2023	2023-10-16
Regulations and frameworks require outcomes, not specific processes, so teams implement testing in production, observability, feature flags and CI/CD as… Talk on
The Engineer/Manager Pendulum Goes Mainstream	SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa	2023-10-10
Argues that switching between engineering and management is now common and urges companies to build policies to support it, with concrete rules: engineer first… Talk on
The Death of DevOps Has Been Greatly Exaggerated, but Platform Engineering Is Here To Stay	DevOpsDays NYC 2023	2023-06-06
Argues DevOps isn’t dead but a new phase is rising: platform engineering becomes the layer that abstracts infrastructure, treats developer productivity as its… Talk on
The Sociotechnical Path to High-Performing Teams	GOTO Chicago 2023	2023-05-22
Argues that the gap between elite and average teams comes from sociotechnical feedback loops, not raw engineering skill, and recommends tracking DORA metrics… Talk on
Founder/CTO Perspectives: The Future of Distributed Tracing	SREcon23 Americas	2023-03-21
Compares Honeycomb, Sentry and Stanza approaches and makes concrete claims: arbitrarily wide structured data becomes the canonical source of truth from which… Talk on
Shipping software should be boring	AWS re:Invent 2022	2022-11-28
Claim: shipping should be boring so teams deploy often and catch bugs fast. Live demo deploys Bee Pong through Honeycomb and AWS tooling to production in about… Talk on
Optimizing price performance with feature management and observability (PRT259)	AWS re:Invent 2022	2022-11-28
Honeycomb migrates production workloads from x86-64 to AWS Graviton2 on EC2 and Lambda using progressive delivery with LaunchDarkly feature flags and Honeycomb… Talk on
Overcoming migration hurdles	AWS re:Invent 2022	2022-11-28
Migrating general compute to AWS Graviton cuts costs and raises throughput by switching compiled artifacts and CI builds to Arm instances; CircleCI supports… Talk on
On call does not have to suck	LeadDev Berlin 2022	2022-11-02
Argues that owning code and redesigning alerts makes on‑call sustainable: adopt event‑level observability, feature flags and auto‑deploy to a small percentage… Talk on
Observability: Building Confidence & Answering the What, Where, How	{unscripted} 2021	2021-06-16
Defines observability as being able to understand any system state from outside and contrasts it with monitoring, names Honeycomb, Prometheus, Datadog and… Talk on
I Test In Production	EuRuKo 2019	2019-06-21
Argues that testing in production is inevitable and often superior, because staging never matches real users and emergent failures are common. Recommends… Talk on
Fueling system discovery with observability	O'Reilly Velocity Conference in New York 2018	2018-10-01
Observability reframes monitoring by collecting wide structured events that keep full context so engineers can derive metrics from events rather than the… Talk on
Observability for Emerging Infra: What Got You Here Won’t Get You There	Jazoon TechDays Autumn 2018	2018-09-06
Argues that observability ≠ monitoring and proves it with Parse’s rescue using Facebook’s Scuba: shipping raw event datasets let engineers slice by user ID and… Talk on
Observability for Emerging Infra: What Got You Here Won't Get You There	Full Stack Fest 2018	2018-09-03
Argues that traditional metrics and dashboards fail because they destroy context and prevent asking new questions, shows Facebook’s Scuba cutting debug time… Talk on
Observability for Emerging Infra: What Got You Here Won't Get You There	SREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa	2018-08-29
Modern infra breaks dashboards and metrics; observability is the ability to ask new questions of raw, wide events not metrics and get answers. Build structured… Talk on
Observability-Driven Development	GopherCon Europe - Iceland 2018	2018-06-01
Argues that TDD alone is insufficient and promotes observability-driven development using real production data; describes the Parse Ruby→Go rewrite and a… Talk on
Observability: it's not just an ops thing	NDC London 2018	2018-01-15
Argues that traditional monitoring (alerts + dashboards) only answers known questions and that true observability requires scuba-like high-cardinality querying… Talk on
Cloud-Native Data: What is it? - Majors, Dunlap, O’Grady, Richardson, Drewitz	SpringOne Platform 2017	2017-12-04
Panel argues cloud-native data needs automation and APIs in all the right places so schema changes and stored procedures stop being blockers, cites Delphix for… Talk on
Observability for Emerging Infra: What Got You Here Won't Get You There	Strange Loop 2017	2017-09-28
Argues that LAMP-era metrics fail for modern, chaotic systems and claims observability needs raw, contextual events not aggregated numbers; says average API… Talk on
Database Reliability Engineering	Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2017	2017-09-25
Book frames database work as reliability engineering and uses concrete examples from MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra and a Facebook RocksDB rollout to… Talk on
A young lady's illustrated primer to technical decision making	Velocity 2016 Santa Clara	2016-06-20
Claims that the rush to glue together third-party platforms and services massively raises system complexity, that many new solutions are not battle‑hardened… Talk on
Building World Class Ops Teams	devopsdays Chicago 2015	2015-08-30
Bootstraps an ops team only when facing hard problems like extreme reliability or rapid growth, not just to offload boring work; examples include Instagram… Talk on
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