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Understanding minimal viable quality promotes craftCraft Conference 20222022-06-02
Argues that setting component promises to the true minimum required improves product craft by avoiding wasted optimization; uses SLI/SLO math, five-minute…
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Adding Simplicity to ComplexityCraft Conference 20222022-06-02
Claim: modern stacks are layers of complex distributed systems and the right answer is simple abstractions at intentional boundaries. Uses a high-scale time…
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Add Simplicity to Complex SystemsCraft Conference 20192019-05-07
Describes building a geo-distributed time‑series database (used in production) that chooses LuaJIT embedding to let data scientists run fast safe code, swaps…
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Shipping Software with an SRE MindsetSREcon19 Americas2019-03-25
Applies SRE practices to shipped on‑prem software: a productionized back-trace collector yields 300KB mini‑dumps ~35 ms after a crash so engineers get full…
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Design (Failures) Case StudySREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa2018-08-29
Circonus describes building a custom C message queue and a bespoke columnar store (IronDB) to replace RabbitMQ and Postgres, achieving ~1M msgs/sec per…
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Ethics in ComputingSREcon18 Europe/Middle East/Africa2018-08-29
Computing grows from a 25-year industry to something that touches billions without domain-specific ethical enforcement, so engineers build defeat devices like…
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Distributed Systems, Like It or NotSREcon17 Europe/Middle East/Africa2017-08-30
Argument: distributed systems are now everywhere so failures matter because one node can affect 10 million browser nodes not just one user; timing and clocks…
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Monitoring Design PrinciplesSREcon17 Europe/Middle East/Africa2017-08-30
Reframes monitoring as measuring real system behavior not vague metrics, argues for SLOs that are assessable (calculate percentiles over fixed one to five…
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Techniques and Tools for a Coherent Discussion about Performance in Complex...SREcon16 Europe2016-07-11
Argues that latency comes from the spaces between services and recommends two concrete practices: distributed tracing (using zipkin/dapper tracing with sampled…
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Telemetry Analysis for ScalingHighLoad++ 20142014-10-31
Circonus describes building a scalable telemetry pipeline: collecting, storing and analyzing high-volume metrics. It covers their architectural evolution…
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Telemetry Analysis at ScaleHighLoad++ 20142014-10-31
Circonus describes collecting, storing and analyzing large-scale telemetry and the architectural evolution they used to scale that pipeline. The talk covers…
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Career DevelopmentVelocity 20112011-06-14
Claim: a lasting web-ops career requires treating work as a craft, adding operational thinking into development, and accepting on‑call accountability so…
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