Production, SRE and the Architecture of the Built Environment
Recycling old talk proposals for fun and...that's it!
Here's an amalgamation of the proposal text and some notes from a talk I proposed for SRECon EMEA last year -- I'll be talking about this to the Dublin SRE meetup in a couple of weeks, so here it is while the dust is dusted off.
Production, SRE and the Architecture of the Built Environment
6 Reasons You Don't Need an SRE Team
The last several years have seen a huge upsurge in the popularity of the DevOps/SRE/Production Engineering model, with companies large and small adopting some of the practices and mindsets. One of the principal lessons many of these organisations (hopefully) learned was that it's close to impossible to adopt …
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What Would It Take?
One of the most constructive things I've found when facing a difficult work situation is to externalise and write things down -- I do quite well with talking things through with folks, and coaching and mentoring is something I get a lot of energy out of. When it's just me and …
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Oncall: An Equal-Opportunity Waste of Time
I spent a number of days at SRECon 2022 in Amsterdam, and gave a talk that I'd had rattling around in my head for a wee while - roughtly based on a paper I left at Google when I left.
Laura was good enough to suggest it as a ;login: article …
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Working Deliberately with OKRs
After being asked by a work colleague to say words about OKRs and if they're a good thing to adopt, I realised I had more words than fit in an email or short doc -- so, here's a slightly longer doc on my view of OKRs, tempered by 15 years or …
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