Laura Nolan
where else to find them
what they talk about
all 9 in the filters
where they keep going back
no series more than once — all 11 in the filters
on a stage with
- Murali Suriar2×
- Adam Mckaigonce
- Amir Langeronce
all 24 in the filters
who talks about the same things
- Niek van Raaij3 talks
- Chelsea Troy9 talks
- Julie Gunderson7 talks
- Soumen Chatterjee3 talks
- Amy Newell4 talks
- Eran Kinsbruner16 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Software Operations and Human Cognition | Øredev 2024 | 2024-11-06 |
Argues that experts win by mental simulation and chunking not buzzwords, and shows concrete fixes: adding a script to capture thread dumps, reading them… | ||
| Site Reliability Engineering as Systems Thinking | Øredev 2024 | 2024-11-06 |
Argues that SRE is a systems‑thinking discipline and gives concrete claims, models and case studies: using delay re‑replication instead of immediate mass… | ||
| Lightning Talks | SREcon24 Americas | 2024-03-18 |
Nine micro-updates: cognition research shows experts use recognition and mental simulation with limits of three moving parts and ~six steps so planning lets… | ||
| How to Make Your Automation a Better Team Player | SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2023-10-10 |
Argues that automation changes the whole socio‑technical system and often causes automation surprise—examples include Argo CD irreversibly deleting a site and… | ||
| Laura Nolan at StaffPlus London 2023 | StaffPlus London 2023 | 2023-06-27 |
Explains concrete methods — Energy Barrier perspective, causal loop diagrams, and hierarchical task analysis — applied to distributed systems with real… | ||
| What SRE Could Be: Systems Reliability Engineering | SREcon22 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2022-10-25 |
Argument: SRE is systems thinking applied to software and sociotechnical systems, not just SLOs or pager duty. Demonstrated tools include hierarchical task… | ||
| Break Free of the Template: Incident Writeups They Want to Read | SREcon22 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2022-10-25 |
Argues that written incident reviews are the lasting learning artifact and shows concrete ways to make them readable: turn incidents into narratives (example… | ||
| You've Lost That Process Feeling: Some Lessons from Resilience Engineering | SREcon21 | 2021-10-12 |
Argues that process feel—a shared, dynamic sense of where a system ought to be—is essential to handle anomalies, and that designing displays which show “where… | ||
| Panel: Unsolved Problems in SRE | SREcon21 | 2021-10-12 |
Panel surveys where SRE practice actually breaks: contrasts consulting vs ownership model, warns one-size-fits-all SLOs, and argues for tool-driven… | ||
| Lightning Talks | SREcon19 Europe/Middle East/Africa | 2019-10-02 |
Ten rapid case studies: a lemonade-as-a-service model shows 100% availability drives exploding cost (machines raise price to €1.12, need N+2); causal loop… | ||
| What Breaks Our Systems: A Taxonomy of Black Swans | SREcon19 Americas | 2019-03-25 |
Catalog of real failure modes: hidden resource caps like ext3 2TB limit that force a dump-and-reimport to ext4, logical counters such as Postgres xid wrap that… | ||
| Keeping the Balance: Internet-Scale Loadbalancing Demystified | SREcon19 Americas | 2019-03-25 |
Starts from a single A record and shows why DNS multi‑IP and short TTLs still fail for health and control, then moves to network load balancers using 5-tuple… | ||
| What Breaks Our Systems: A Taxonomy of Black Swans | LISA18 | 2018-10-29 |
Conference postmortems group outages into six actionable failure modes and show concrete defenses. Examples include an ext3 2 TB filesystem ceiling that halts… | ||
| Keeping the Balance: Load Balancing Demystified | LISA18 | 2018-10-29 |
Explains concrete choices and tradeoffs: an example server handles five queries per second, DNS round‑robin adds a TTL delay (short TTLs multiply DNS load… | ||
| Distributed Consensus Algorithms | SREcon17 Asia/Australia | 2017-05-22 |
Distributed consensus is what prevents split-brain problem and lets services like Photon, Chubby, ZooKeeper and Spanner give strong consistency by ordering… | ||
| Panel: Oncall | SREcon16 Europe | 2016-07-11 |
Panel discussion shows concrete practices: mandatory shadow and reverse-shadow onboarding, automated paging into rotations, tracking metrics like first-touch… | ||
| nothing matches | ||