Chris Sinjakli
where else to find them
website:https://blog.sinjakli.co.uk
github:Sinjo
bluesky:sinjo.dev
mastodon:@Sinjo@tech.lgbt
speakerdeck:sinjo
what they talk about
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where they keep going back
no series more than once — all 6 in the filters
on a stage with
never shared a talk
who talks about the same things
nobody close enough yet
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data | SREcon25 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2025-10-07 |
Databases must cope with torn 16KB (MySQL) or 8KB (Postgres) pages versus 4KB atomic sectors, so MySQL uses a doublewrite buffer that guarantees one intact… | ||
| Fixing Your Noisy Pager in 500 Easy Steps | SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2024-10-29 |
Pager load drops from hundreds of pages per month to low tens per week by combining a weekly triage loop — group alerts by name, sort by frequency, manually… | ||
| Deconstructing an Abstraction to Reconstruct an Outage | SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2023-10-10 |
At 15:09 a RAID controller ejects disks and the primary goes down; engineers reproduce a three-node Postgres cluster in Docker Compose, inject faults with… | ||
| Making the Impossible Impossible: Improving Reliability by... | SREcon22 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2022-10-25 |
Argues SLOs nudge teams toward percentage fixes but some outages are avoidable by design: using state machines to forbid invalid payment transitions, relying… | ||
| Doing Things the Hard Way | SREcon18 Asia/Australia | 2018-06-06 |
Company grows from ~25 to ~215 people and engineers from 8 to 60, and three concrete failure modes emerge: splitting product and infra early breaks the… | ||
| Hiring SREs May Be Literally Impossible | SREcon17 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2017-08-30 |
Hiring external SREs is slow and lossy: GoCardless 2017 pipeline shows 160 applicants → 45 remote tests → 15 finalists → 2 offers accepted. The practical fix… | ||
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