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What Do We Do Now, Now That We’re Happy?SREcon25 Europe/Middle East/Africa2025-10-07
Claims that AI task capability is doubling every seven months and that agents recently solved six of seven IMO problems frame a push to apply models to SRE…
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Panel Discussion: Is Reliability a Luxury Good?SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa2024-10-29
Companies are cutting reliability teams after rounds of layoffs and treating upkeep as expendable, citing short‑term savings while outages still cost real…
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20 Years of SRE: Highs and LowsSREcon24 Americas2024-03-18
Starts from a concrete origin: production was managed by a forked cluster.py list, teams built babysitter to edit arrays at runtime, then evolved into Borg and…
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The Value of ReliabilitySREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa2023-10-10
Argues reliability value isn’t just uptime seconds but measurable business impact: proposes stack labeling (attribute revenue to call-stack-like components)…
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Don't Follow Leaders or "All Models Are Wrong (and So Am I)"SREcon212021-10-12
Five years on, the SRE book is credited with spreading ideas but also fossilizing practice: widespread copying produces stalled innovation. Claims: SLOs and…
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What If the Promise of AIOps Was True?SREcon212021-10-12
Defines AIOps as ML applied to production infrastructure, contrasts three stances: impossible today because production lacks the sample sizes and ROI, an…
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Panel: Unsolved Problems in SRESREcon212021-10-12
Panel surveys where SRE practice actually breaks: contrasts consulting vs ownership model, warns one-size-fits-all SLOs, and argues for tool-driven…
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The Silver Lining Consortium: Post-Mortems for the Rest of UsSREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa2018-08-29
Argues for a consortium that defines a standardized post-mortem schema and runs a centralized, searchable corpus of public cloud post-mortems with tooling to…
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Against On-Call: A PolemicSREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa2018-08-29
Argument: humans perform poorly under on-call stress—baseline error rate ~0.5% and errors double under time pressure (Microsoft chess study), 26% vs 19% report…
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The Structure and Interpretation of GraphsSREcon16 Europe2016-07-11
Shows concrete graph failures and fixes: latency percentiles (50/85/95/99) on a log scale reveal huge tail impacts and timeouts; QPS hourly spikes expose…
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