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Tanya Reilly

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title	conference	date
What Can You See from Here?	SREcon24 Americas	2024-03-18
Argument: your immediate context warps priorities and fuels pointless fights; concrete example: bike-shedding origin is a 1999 FreeBSD thread about sleep… Talk on
Technical leadership and glue work	The Lead Developer New York 2019	2019-04-30
Argues that doing onboarding, docs, roadmap and unblocking is real technical leadership but often goes unrewarded and can stall careers. Gives data: women… Talk on
The History of Fire Escapes	SREcon18 Americas	2018-03-27
Argues that New York’s long arc of disasters — from the 1835 and tenement blazes to the Triangle Shirtwaist fire (146 dead) — shows fire escapes are a hacky… Talk on
The History Of Fire Escapes: How To Fail (Keynote)	DevOpsDays NYC 2018	2018-01-18
Argues that surprise failures come from poor physical design and policy not from bad luck and shows concrete analogs that map to infrastructure: use fire… Talk on
Have You Tried Turning It Off and Turning It On Again?	LISA17	2017-10-29
Argues that a simultaneous reboot can leave a site unrecoverable because of hidden runtime dependencies and bootstrapping cycles, shows dependency graphs… Talk
Have You Tried Turning It off and Turning It on Again?	SREcon17 Europe/Middle East/Africa	2017-08-30
Argues that untested fallback plans and hidden service cycles, not abstract “backend” problems, make global restarts unrecoverable; cites real… Talk on
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