This week's blog post, which is a recap of my SRECon talk from last week, is now available for paid subscribers only, and will be available for free to the general public next Monday! Check it out if you want.
blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/stop-readi...
#kubernetes #srecon #simkube
Green and white lights on an aptitude metrix COVID reader
Woo, not currently infected. There were, of course, contingency plans if I were, but I'd have been bummed about missing the last day of #SREcon.
Ok that's over. Lots of great questions and interaction! My slides and other materials are up on GitHub if you want to know more :)
github.com/acrlabs/srec...
#srecon
My talk at SRECon is in two hours! Come check it out and learn how simulation can help you with your Kubernetes upgrades!
#srecon #kubernetes
OH: “asynchronous transfer of risk” #SREcon
Interested in measuring and reducing your MTTWTF, #SREcon? You need @honeycomb.io. www.honeycomb.io/why-honeycom...
Nicolefv presenting on SREcon stage: "mean time to wtf"
Same. And "time your MTTWTF"
Yes, @honeycomb.io already has a sticker for this, in case you're curious. We're a SaaS company (stickers as a service) #SREcon
SRECon first impressions: it is wet. Why is it wet. In Seattle??? In March?????
Anyways, as normal I'm going to liveblog along on Mastodon, follow along if you want!
hachyderm.io/@drmorr
#srecon
SRECon first impressions: it is wet. Why is it wet. In Seattle??? In March?????
Anyways, as normal I'm going to liveblob along on Mastodon (sorry not sorry, I tried the "liveblog on two platforms at once" thing and it's too hard), follow along if you want!
hachyderm.io/@drmorr
#srecon
I know all the cool kids are at KubeCon EU this week, but _this_ cool kid is gonna be at SRECon in Seattle! I'm giving a talk: "Stop Reading Changelogs: Safer Kubernetes Upgrades with Simulation" on Wednesday at 11:55-12:40.
Come find me and say hi! Would love to chat.
#srecon
Hey #SREcon folks! I'm not attending but I do live in Seattle. If you want to catch up, ping me :)
So excited for all of my client meetings next week in Seattle, and seeing folks from the wider SRE community at #SREcon! Make sure to say hi if you're there :)
I'll be hosting the Monitoring and Observability open space with Daria Barteneva on Tuesday afternoon, so come with opinions and questions!
If you're headed to #SRECON next week, come say 👋 and ask your questions about Grafana Cloud, the LGTM Stack, and all things observability: www.usenix.org/conference/s...
We'll see you there!
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.
