The New York SRE Tech Talk program has ended. This content is kept for historical purposes.
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We began the SRE Tech Talk program in New York City in January 2016. Participants came from over fifty different companies, ranging from startups to large tech companies to finance firms. University students interested in learning about SRE were also welcome. Over 100 people typically came to each event, capacity permitting.
Event information
Events were typically held at Google's campus in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, usually on the third Wednesday of each month.
We typically opened the doors for networking and socializing at 5:30pm, with food arriving at 6pm and talks beginning at 6:30pm.
No recruiters or press were allowed at these events, in order to facilitate the event's focus on professional development and networking.
Google and our co-sponsors are dedicated to providing a harassment-free and inclusive conference experience for everyone, and our Event Community Guidelines applied to this event.
Past talks
April 2017
- Martín Beauchamp, Shapeways on Linux Network Switches
- Yannick Brosseau, Facebook on Automating The Linux Kernel Validation
- Silvia Esparrachiari, Google on Dependency Traps and Gotchas
January 2016
- Mike Cugini, Dropbox on Automating Scary Things With Naoru
- Tanya Reilly, Google on Past-You Says Hi! -- Gifts and Traps from Past-You
- Tom Limoncelli, StackOverflow on If a process/procedure is risky, do it a lot
February 2016
- Kristina Bennett, Google on Challenges of Data Integrity
- Thaddeus Covert, Thesys on Low-Latency Trading Systems
- Tony Rippy, Google on Why Scaling Monitoring Data is Hard
March 2016
- Homin Lee, Datadog on Detecting Outliers and Anomalies
- Carlos O'Ryan, Google on SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs
April 2016
- Alexis Lê-Quôc, Datadog on A postmortem, blow-by-blow
- Paul Holden and Matt Stern, Google on Coroner - Crash Reporting and Analysis at Google
May 2016
- Sam Kottler, DigitalOcean on Reliability engineering for the public cloud
- Madiha Irfan, Rutgers University on Being a Young Woman in Tech
- Dmitriy Gromov, Knewton on Rolling out the Mesos Slave Roller
June 2016
- Tanya Reilly, Google on Microservice Dependencies
- Mark Henderson on Data Integrity Disaster Stories
- Marc Berhault, Cockroach Labs on Productionizing CockroachDB
July 2016
- John Tobin, Google on Running Disruptive Software Projects Affecting Multiple SRE Teams
- Steven Kreuzer on Time Synchronization with IEEE 1588
- Liz Fong-Jones, Google on Interrupt-Reduction Projects to Reduce Technical Debt
August 2016
Thanks to Squarespace for co-sponsoring this month's event!
- Liz Frost, Heroku on How to be a good generalist SWE/SRE
- Silvia Esparrachiari, Google on Managing Large Scale Pipelines
- Thomas A. Limoncelli, StackOverflow.com on Teaching DevOps to Ops without Devs
October 2016
- Joy Scharmen, Heroku on Getting Good Things out of Bad Failures
- Chris Jones, Google on Service Levels and Error Budgets
November 2016
- Jason Liang and Leo Cazares, Facebook on Facebook Hardware Lifecycle
- Cindy Sridharan, Imgix on Prometheus Monitoring System
- Hyang-ah Kim, Google on Debugging Performance Issues in Go Servers
January 2017
- Tali Gutman, Google on Spreading the Love of Production Engineering
- Mark Henderson, Stack Overflow on DNS Performance Measurement
February 2017
Thanks to Pivotal for co-sponsoring this month's event!
- Xavier Nicollet, Stack Overflow on DevOps to NetworkOps
- Paul Sastrasinh and Giannis Neokleous, Knewton on Kizceral and TDist: Dependency Discovery and Tracing