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
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 …
Category: Writing Tagged: writing sre
Read MoreI 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 …
Category: Writing Tagged: log writing oncall sre
Read MoreAfter 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 …
Category: Writing Tagged: writing okrs
Read MoreThanks to my accomodating erstwhile colleagues, I'm able to publish the original paper (with minor redactions so it makes sense for an external audience). A version of this paper later became Chapter 29 of the SRE Book.
To add a little bit of extra colour, the document came out of …
Category: Writing Tagged: log writing
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