Latest posts tagged with #SRECon on Bluesky
reason I ask is, I'm good to drive down to Seattle after all given the state of uspoli, so I'm facilitating the #srecon open space / unconference on observability and monitoring with the wonderful Daria Barteneva! www.usenix.org/conference/s...
Who's going to be at #SREcon Americas in Seattle in a few weeks?
Title slide from my talk 'The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data' with a red promotional-style sticker on the top right that says 'Bonus Bits'
The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data: Bonus Bits
A footnote to my #SREcon talk on how databases implement crash safety, with extra details for database nerds ✌🏻💖
blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2025/11/29/t...
#Postgres #MySQL
For anyone waiting for the video: my #SREcon talk is now up!
Lots of deep details in there about how hard it is to store data reliably and how tiny mistakes can turn into big problems.
9 HOURS LEFT!
Election Night in America is important, but let's talk about our REAL main event: the #Usenix #SREcon Americas #CFP deadline!
srecon26americas.usenix.hotcrp.com
Get your talk in tonight so I'll have something better than elections to argue about over Thanksgiving. 🧵1
Aptitude Metrix COVID test results showing negative green light
I am pleased to report that I did not catch COVID from #SREcon. One of the best big conference venues I've been in, CO2 levels stayed under 650 in the main keynote rooms and below 800 in even the low ceilinged rooms and expo hall!
Flying back from #SREcon. This time AI will stay with us for longer. But not in the way we think about it right now.
the #SREcon post-event dinner I went to last night was at a pub named "Dockers" which was a wee bit on the nose...
Screenshot of about half of the slides from the linked talk, laid out in a grid (Keynote's Light Table view)
If you were at my talk – The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data – the slides are now up!
Here's the customary 1000ft view of about half of them.
speakerdeck.com/sinjo/comput...
#SREcon
OH "If any of you are using Ubuntu 16.04...maybe don't raise your hands."
#SREcon
John Looney of Crusoe was discussing this at his morning keynote yesterday at #SREcon - describing "clean energy parks" where power consumers and producers gather, similar to the previous generation of network connectivity hubs.
Apparently a giant wind farm being built in western IE for this too.
"You all hate computers." Well, someone knows his audience! 😆 #SREcon
Slide titled "Claude got dumber?"
Next #SREcon talk is another one of the many AI-related ones at this conference. Todd Underwood, the speaker of "SRE for GenAI and GenAI for SRE?" is from Anthropic. And I have to concede that he's really good at it.
Projection of a slide titled "High-performance data plane in user space"
Arrived a little late for day 2 of #SREcon, but luckily I haven't missed much of the first talk to which I was looking forward: "Lessons learned from building an L4 load balancing service". #SRE
git-of-theseus plot showing 600k out of 1.4M lines of code last touched in 2025, then 300k, 200k, 100k lines of code respectively surviving from 2024, 2023, and 2022. the remaining 1/4 of the codebase was composed prior to 2021.
Slides for my #SREcon talk on Fast, Reproducible Builds with Docker Bake: drive.google.com/file/d/1g-H6...
Fun fact, 42% of our codebase (by LOC) was written this year, and we're only 9 months in! And yes, we're doing 2x builds & merges per week with only 50% more devs, thanks, AI & fast builds!
Mustering all my post-lunch attention for the #SREcon talk "50 Shades of Caching (and how LLMs are painting it black)" because AI bots are an increasing concern for us and our customers at @freistilbox.
Staying on the lower levels of the ISO OSI stack, I'm watching the #SREcon talk "Quo Vadis IPv6", feeling slightly guilty for my shallow knowledge of the topic.
Photo of a laptop on a stand in a small cubby, with a coffee pod machine to its left
I was getting some talk practice in last night and the only surface that was the right height in my hotel room was the tea & coffee cubby, so uh…
#SREcon
Slide projection showing the title "ACK to the future - TCP in 2025"
Switching happily from the AI-centric initial talks at #SREcon to more fundamental operations topics. "ACK to the Future" is a great title to start off.
Arrived at #SREcon in Dublin. Perfect location, just a 1h bus ride from home. Looking forward to lots of inspiration!
Counters at the Dublin Conference Center ready for usenix SRECON Badge pick up
About to pick up my badge for #srecon
Registration is supposed to open in ten minutes.
First end-to-end run through of my #SREcon talk done. Spotted some sections where I can improve the flow. Exactly on time, but I was speaking quickly so I'll probably trim a little material.
Happy with it overall.
Who's going to #SRECon? 🇮🇪
We're excited to be a sponsor! Come to booth 8 with your #Grafana Stack questions and pick up some swag! Don't miss Nikola's talk on auto-instrumentation for GPU performance using #eBPF.
See you there!
I've been going down some real rabbit holes for the #Postgres fsyncgate part of my #SREcon talk.
I started another round of research on the Linux and Postres patches that solved it, blinked, and it was 2am. Oops 😅
I hope people find the talk as interesting as I've found the research for it!
Screenshot of a presentation slide titled "Pages vs Sectors", which illustrates different data sizes using colourful blocks. It shows 16kB pages in memory, then SSD with 4kB sectors and an old HDD with 512b sectors.
Very excited about my #SREcon talk, but also can't wait to be out of slide layout hell 😅
SREcon Americas 2025 (SF) slides and full talk videos are live!
Great insights on SRE, scaling, resilience, and incident response.
Watch here:
www.usenix.org/conference/s...
#SREcon #DevOps #SRE
@srecon.bsky.social 's #USENIX #SREcon Americas 2025 presentations are up! As always, free to the public. Check out the sessions you couldn't attend in person!
www.usenix.org/conference/s...
Looks like my #SRECon talk is up, in case people wanted to hear me witter on about how resiliency isn't straightforward.
youtu.be/2kxrT-dSpk8
