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| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| A Tale of Two Outages | SREday San Francisco 2025 Q2 | 2025-04-11 |
A 2009 outage destroys a single SAN’s metadata partition, leaving a 15 TB relational database unreadable until a third‑party recovery team reconstructs 4K… | ||
| How to ruin your product by using Agile as an excuse not to plan | Global SRE Virtual Conference 2022 | 2022-07-25 |
Argues that treating Agile as permission to skip planning causes expensive, often irreversible failures, citing a control plane that only replaces one server… | ||
| Confessions of a Systems Engineer: Learning from My 20+ Years of Failure | SREcon20 Americas | 2020-12-07 |
No change is safe: a config meant for test once reaches prod via a VIP and takes out prod services, so every rollout uses canary under deployment with staged… | ||
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