Conf42: Site Reliability Engineering 2020

August 27 2020 - premiere 5PM GMT

Keynotes

Driving Service Ownership with Distributed Tracing

While many organizations are rolling out Kubernetes, breaking up their monoliths, and adopting DevOps practices with the hope of increasing developer velocity and improving reliability, it’s not enough just to put these tools in the hands of developers: you’ve got to incentivize developers to use them. Service ownership provides these incentives, by holding teams accountable for metrics like...

Daniel "Spoons" Spoonhower

LightStep

From application to product ownership: an SRE team's journey

In the past, my team was responsible for specific applications/ executables. Now, we are responsible for specific for end-user workflows, no matter which executables they involve. I will describe the technical and social changes that necessitated and enabled this change of paradigm. At the end of 2019, our team supported in the order of 200 executables/microservices that provide functionality...