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Challenges of Making Large AI Clusters ReliableSREcon25 Europe/Middle East/Africa2025-10-07
Crusoe.ai runs vertically integrated AI clusters and describes concrete limits: a single HGX server costs about $700,000 machine with $45k GPUs and a $118k…
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Lightning TalksSREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa2024-10-29
Nine four-minute briefs give concrete takeaways: an argument for measuring the meantime to recovery of engineers and scheduling to prevent burnout; GCE rollout…
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Silent Spring: What if the GDPR Was Real?SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa2023-10-10
Predicts EU law enforcement suddenly applied to tech: concrete fixes proposed include store encryption keys in EU and rehome EU user data to EU data centers…
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SRE Is Weird, Down the StackSREcon22 Europe/Middle East/Africa2022-10-25
Infrastructure SRE work uncovers millions of lines of opaque firmware that break real systems: expect 30–50M lines of invisible firmware, mysterious 100 ms SMM…
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A Customer Service Approach to SRESREcon19 Europe/Middle East/Africa2019-10-02
Facebook's Server Lifecycle team shows concrete changes: they add installer options to run burn‑in scripts and disable components so technicians stop…
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SRE Theory vs. Practice: A Song of Ice and TireFireSREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa2018-08-29
A postmortem of polished conference rhetoric vs messy reality: a touted “perfect” SRE setup actually hides chaos engineering used as blame insurance…
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Use Load Testing to Build a Proper Mental Model of Your ServiceSREcon17 Europe/Middle East/Africa2017-08-30
Intercom builds a custom load generator, hooks the test cluster to production monitoring via terraform, and uncovers concrete failure modes: 35MB queries (1.5M…
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Data Privacy Legislation and the Impact on SRESREcon16 Europe2016-07-11
Court of Justice invalidates the EU–US Safe Harbor, halting its transfers immediately and forcing engineering teams to choose between Standard Contractual…
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