Heading home to Seattle from #srecon. Between booking the late flight and a bunch of delays, I'm starting to think that driving would have been faster.

Some great #SRE war stories have been told this week at #srecon. Two of the most compelling were told by #Bluesky and #Squarespace engineers, as detailed here. #postmortem #googledomains #incidentpostmortem #projectpostmortem

ttps://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366621615/BlueSky-Squarespace-pros-give-incident-project-postmortems

#SRECon Systems Thinking with Poisoned Systems

My second report from #SREcon: Some of the same lessons -- and unsolved problems -- from supporting #machinelearning apps in production carry over to #generativeAI apps, but not all. Attendees discussed the similarities and important differences. #reliabilityengineering #ML #GenAI #LLM #AI #MLOps #LLMOps https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366621071/Site-Reliability-Engineers-weigh-MLOps-vs-LLMOps

Also A+ to #srecon venue for easily accessible sunshine and fresh air area.

First dispatch from #SREcon, covering some interesting discussions about how supporting #LLM-based apps in production differs from traditional apps. Features a presentation by Brendan Burns about lessons learned from rolling out #Azure #Copilot.
#LLMOps #AI #genAI #generativeAI #microsoftcopilot #microsoft https://www.techtarget.com/searchitoperations/news/366621317/SREs-map-uncharted-territory-with-LLMOps

Anybody I know here up for a meet up at #SRECon?

Tables and power strips for general sessions at #srecon. YES. A++.

So this is interesting- the venue for #srecon this week is right next to the 49ers stadium. Also, I am definitely NOT in Boston anymore...

Okay, my suitcase is packed, almost ready to leave for #SREcon. Just one little problem: someone knows that Things Are Afoot.

He keeps following me around and crying. He knows what suitcases mean, and he is Not A Fan.

There. My #SREcon talk is ready. A month later than I'd wanted, but still over 36h before I'm scheduled to talk. Lots of time for last-minute tweaks and rehearsals.

We're excited to be at #SRECON again! Visit us at booth 23 to get Grafana swag and answers to your #Grafana

Stack questions. And don't miss our lightning talks on Mar 26 during the 5:45 pm - 7:30 pm slot. See you there!

cannot wait to deliver my lightning talk at #SRECon this spring

"What Real Housewives Taught Me About Postmortems"

I'm speaking at #SREcon in Santa Clara this March! Come learn how Let's Encrypt issues millions of certificates with just a handful of staff and servers! https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas/presentation/mcpherrin

checking out the #SRECon Americas program and omg so much goodness

Improving the SRE Experience for 10y as a Free, Open, and Automated CA
(as someone whos tenure at companies tends to max out at 3y...I really dig talks with long lookback periods)
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas/presentation/aas

Technical Debt as Theory Building and Practice - @yvonnezlam
(I have a feeling this is a talk I'll be referencing and recommending for a long while!)
"I will examine the connections between technical debt, housework/carework, and infrastructure in order to talk through strategies for understanding the shape of your technical debt, picking pieces to pay down, and building narratives with conceptual integrity around technical debt."
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas/presentation/lam

obvi gotta be front row for David Woods' SRE & Complexification: Where Verbs and Nouns Do Battle
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas/presentation/woods

How’s the App Doing? Bringing Mobile Into Your Reliability Picture
I learned a *bit* about mobile observability when talking with @bidetofevil for Off-Call but am ready for the next level!
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas/presentation/ho

OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions and How to Avoid Broken Observability
tbh I think the semantic conventions are the biggest win and likely most enduring impact of OTel and it's great to see a talk about the benefits AND the bumpy experience of adopting standards that are still evolving.
https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas/presentation/gurumurthy

this is just a smol sample of the great sessions, highly recommend checking out the full program https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon25americas/program

#SRECon wants a headshot to go with my talk. My usual social media picture is from 2010 or so and has me hiding behind a camera. Which, admittedly, is a common enough sight, but I don't think that's what the conference organizers want to put in their program.

Under normal circumstances, I'd just go to the family photographer for a headshot, but (a) that's me and (b) I'm terrible at self portraits.

Could I get a few opinions on this one? Too grim? Too out-of-focus? Too much cat fur?

A watched #srecon talk proposal never boils.

Oh hey, my SREcon talk is up :D

If your team is struggling with a noisy pager and you're not sure how to fix it, check out the recording!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCiOy2miZVM