SREcon24 Europe/Middle East/Africa: Full Schedule

18:00 GMT

Welcome Get-Together

Monday October 28, 2024 18:00 - 19:00 GMT

Whether this is your first time at SREcon or your tenth, enjoy this opportunity to meet your fellow attendees over snacks and beverages before the conference program begins.

Monday October 28, 2024 18:00 - 19:00 GMT
Liffey Hall 1

11:00 GMT

Discussion: Managing Cost

Tuesday October 29, 2024 11:00 - 12:30 GMT

Liffey Hall 1

John Looney, Reddit, and James Beal

This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss managing cost, facilitated by our knowledgeable guides. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in managing cost.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/discussion-managing-cost

Speakers

James Beal

James started playing with computers with the ZX81, learned C for his A Levels, and has degrees in computer science and parallel and distributed systems. He has been using Linux originally with MCC Interim Linux and later with other distributions. He started volunteering at the OTW... Read More →

John Looney

John is a platform engineer who helps senior engineers tune their applications to cost less, and makes Kubernetes cost less to run. Both projects required making promises to product teams - “that the compute platform will be reliable enough that they don’t need to pad out resources... Read More →

Tuesday October 29, 2024 11:00 - 12:30 GMT
Liffey Hall 1

Discussion Track

14:00 GMT

Discussion: eBPF

Tuesday October 29, 2024 14:00 - 15:30 GMT

Liffey Hall 1

Cameron Howes, Goldman Sachs, and Daniel Hodges

This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss eBPF, facilitated by our knowledgeable hosts. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in eBPF.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/discussion-ebpf

Speakers

Cameron Howes

Goldman Sachs

Cameron Howes is an Analyst in the Market Data SRE team at Goldman Sachs, specialising in low-level development and performance instrumentation. When he's not ferociously avoiding a memory allocation, or reading about the latest CVEs, Cameron can be found writing black-box probers... Read More →

Daniel Hodges

16:00 GMT

Discussion: Service Level Objectives

Tuesday October 29, 2024 16:00 - 17:30 GMT

Liffey Hall 1

Alex Hidalgo, Nobl9, and Heinrich Hartmann, Zalando SE

This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss SLOs, facilitated by our knowledgeable guides. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in SLOs.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/discussion-slos

Speakers

Heinrich Hartmann

Zalando SE

Heinrich Hartmann is a seasoned expert with a decade of experience in Reliability Engineering. Currently, he serves as the Senior Principal SRE at Zalando, a leading European e-commerce company, where he oversees company-wide reliability practices. Before joining Zalando, Heinrich... Read More →

Alex Hidalgo

Nobl9

Alex Hidalgo is the Field CTO at Nobl9 and author of "Implementing Service Level Objectives." During his career he has developed a deep love for sustainable operations, proper observability, and using SLO data to drive discussions and make decisions. Alex's previous jobs have included... Read More →

Tuesday October 29, 2024 16:00 - 17:30 GMT
Liffey Hall 1

Discussion Track

11:00 GMT

Discussion: SRE in Small Orgs

Wednesday October 30, 2024 11:00 - 12:30 GMT

Liffey Hall 1

Emil Stolarsky, Increase, and Joan O’Callaghan, Udemy

This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss running SRE teams in small organisations, facilitated by our knowledgeable guides. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session,with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are part of SRE teams in small organisation.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/discussion-sre-in-small-orgs

Speakers

Emil Stolarsky

Increase

Emil is an engineer at Increase where he works on building modern banking infrastructure. Before that, he was at companies such as Wave Mobile Money, DigitalOcean, and Shopify, working on everything from building data centres in Sub-Saharan Africa to caching & performance optimizations... Read More →

Wednesday October 30, 2024 11:00 - 12:30 GMT
Liffey Hall 1

Discussion Track

14:00 GMT

Discussion: Monitoring and Alerting

Wednesday October 30, 2024 14:00 - 15:30 GMT

Liffey Hall 1

Daria Barteneva, Microsoft Azure, and Niall Murphy, Stanza

This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss monitoring and alerting, facilitated by our knowledgeable guides. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in monitoring and alerting.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/discussion-monitoring-alerting

Speakers

Daria Barteneva

Microsoft Azure

Daria is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer in Observability Engineering in Azure. With a background in Applied Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, and Music, Daria is passionate about machine learning, diversity in tech, and opera. In her current role, Daria is focused on changing... Read More →

Niall Murphy

Stanza

Niall is the CEO of Stanza Systems, has occupied various engineering and leadership roles in Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, and is the instigator of the best-selling & prize-winning Site Reliability Engineering, which he hopes at some stage to live down. His most recent book is Reliable... Read More →

Wednesday October 30, 2024 14:00 - 15:30 GMT
Liffey Hall 1

Discussion Track

16:00 GMT

Discussion: Scaling Databases

Wednesday October 30, 2024 16:00 - 17:30 GMT

Liffey Hall 1

Chris Sinjakli, PlanetScale, and Martin Alderete, Booking.com

This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss the challenges inherent in scaling databases, facilitated by our knowledgeable host. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in scaling databases.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/discussion-scaling-databases

Speakers

Chris Sinjakli

PlanetScale

Chris enjoys working on the strange parts of computing where software and systems meet. He especially likes the challenges of databases and distributed systems.All his programs are made from organic, hand-picked, artisanal keypresses.

Martin Alderete

Booking.com

Martin Alderete is a Principal Site Reliability Engineer with a long track record in Engineering, Distributed Systems and System Level Programming in both the academia where after getting his degree he worked as teacher assistant. And the industry where he led different teams building... Read More →

Wednesday October 30, 2024 16:00 - 17:30 GMT
Liffey Hall 1

Discussion Track

09:00 GMT

Discussion: Wrangling your Management Chain

Thursday October 31, 2024 09:00 - 10:30 GMT

Liffey Hall 1

Dave O’Connor and Todd Underwood

This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss managing your management chain, facilitated by our knowledgeable guides. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in wrangling your management.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/discussion-wrangling-management

Speakers

Dave O'Connor

Dave is an SRE Leadership practitioner, Advisor and Coach based in Dublin. He's been working on SRE and SRE-adjacent organisations for over 20 years, primarily as an SRE Lead at Google from 2004-2021. Since then, he has spent time leading SRE, Security and Infrastructure teams at... Read More →

Todd Underwood

Todd Underwood recently lead reliability for the Research Platform at Open AI. Previously he was a Senior Engineering Director at Google leading ML capacity engineering in the office of the CFO at Alphabet. Before that, he founded and led ML Site Reliability Engineering and was the... Read More →

Thursday October 31, 2024 09:00 - 10:30 GMT
Liffey Hall 1

Discussion Track

11:00 GMT

Discussion: Building New SRE Teams

Thursday October 31, 2024 11:00 - 12:30 GMT

Liffey Hall 1

Avleen Vig and Stephane Dudzinski

This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss building new SRE teams, facilitated by our knowledgeable guides. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in building SRE teams from scratch.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/discussion-building-new-sre-teams

Speakers

Avleen Vig

Twilio

Avleen is one of Twilio’s Architects for SRE. Over his luminous 20+ year career he has shone a light on the importance of making reliability a core part of the work done by all software engineering teams. When he isn’t working on improving systems designs and reviewing code, you... Read More →

Stephane Dudzinski

Stephane Dudzinski is a seasoned veteran with over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, specializing in observability, SRE, and systems. With a decade of leadership experience, he has managed and mentored high-performing teams, improving system reliability. Stephane currently... Read More →

Thursday October 31, 2024 11:00 - 12:30 GMT
Liffey Hall 1

Discussion Track

14:00 GMT

Discussion: Learning from Incidents

Thursday October 31, 2024 14:00 - 15:30 GMT

Liffey Hall 1

Laura de Vesine, Datadog, Inc., and Cail Young, Octopus Deploy

This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss getting the most out of your incident review process, facilitated by our knowledgeable guides. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in learning from incidents.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/discussion-learning-from-incidents

Speakers

Laura de Vesine

Datadog, Inc.

Laura de Vesine is a 20+ year software industry veteran. She has spent the last 8 years in SRE working in incident analysis and prevention, chaos engineering, and the intersection of technology and organizational culture. Laura is currently a staff engineer at Datadog, Inc. She also... Read More →

Cail Young

Octopus Deploy

Cail has spent the last couple of decades working at the intersection of people and technology: in the performing arts, in the motion picture industry, and now in the field of software operations. He is fascinated by learning from incidents - large and small - and will gladly trade... Read More →

Thursday October 31, 2024 14:00 - 15:30 GMT
Liffey Hall 1

Discussion Track

14:00 GMT

Discussion: System Performance and Scaling

Thursday October 31, 2024 14:00 - 15:30 GMT

Liffey Hall 1

Leila Vayghan, Shopify, and Abbas Soltanian, OpsGuru

Join us for an interactive Q&A session on System Performance and Scaling, where our expert panel, featuring a senior infrastructure engineer and a senior cloud solutions architect, will address your most pressing questions. This session is designed to provide practical insights and real-world solutions to help you optimize your systems for performance and scalability. Whether you're dealing with cloud architecture challenges, Kubernetes orchestration, or scaling complex infrastructures, bring your questions and engage with industry experts to enhance your understanding and capabilities.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon24emea/presentation/discussion-system-performance-scaling

Speakers

Leila Vayghan

Shopify

Leila is an engineer at Shopify, where she spends her days enabling millions of merchants to grow by making sure buyers are able to search and find their products. She does this by running a large-scale search infrastructure on Kubernetes in many regions of the world. Leila has completed... Read More →

Abbas Soltanian

OpsGuru

Dr. Abbas Soltanian, a Senior Cloud Solutions Architect at OpsGuru (Canada), holds a Ph.D. in Cloud Computing and has presented his work at numerous conferences. With over thirteen years of experience in both academia and industry, he helps companies migrate to the cloud and modernize... Read More →

Thursday October 31, 2024 14:00 - 15:30 GMT
Liffey Hall 1

Discussion Track