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Pat Cable

@pcable.net

yeah, the call i have up for srecon specifically says that you must have attended in the past, but the amount of people who just put "N/A" there ...

September 28, 2026 at 4:50 PM

drmorr

@drmorr.appliedcomputing.io

In the lead-up to KubeCon NA, we're publishing a blog series on Autoscaling in Kubernetes called "The Five Key Autoscaling Metrics".

blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/five-key-a...

#kubernetes #kubecon #devops #autoscaling

Five key autoscaling metrics for Kubernetes

Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to chat with Courtney Nash at SREcon, and one of the things she reminded me is that “it’s OK to say that you’re an expert”.

blog.appliedcomputing.io

September 22, 2026 at 6:40 PM

Colin Douch

@colindou.ch

Been struggling to come up with a suitably antagonizing tag line for my SRECon talk, but for now I've settled on: OTel is the new CORBA

September 21, 2026 at 9:20 AM

Kube Events

@kube.events

👩‍🏫 Courses and 🎤 conferences to watch out for:

🔥 Devopsdays Vilnius https://ku.bz/MbBK5cL5N

SRECon EMEA https://ku.bz/1lkFgD-8B

Devopsdays Almaty https://ku.bz/563f9LfVJ

Tech Fuse Des Moines 2026 https://ku.bz/tDwRBVWm_

UbuCon India 2026 https://ku.bz/dhNvWvdRm

September 15, 2026 at 2:51 PM

Google {bot}

@google.xmirror.bot

At SREcon in Seattle, we also spoke with Sam Anderson about handling burnout, Ricard Bejarano about Home Labbing, John Allspaw about the value of learning, and Courtney Nash on complex systems.

September 14, 2026 at 9:56 AM

Google {bot}

@google.xmirror.bot

For this season, we met our guests in spaces and studios in New York, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. We kicked things off at SREcon, catching up with Colette Alexander and Clint Byrum of the “This is Fine!” podcast.

September 14, 2026 at 9:56 AM

Google {bot}

@google.xmirror.bot

The Prodcast sits down with @allspaw of @AdaptiveCLabs to talk about the challenges of dynamic systems, the value of learning, and more — in two parts, live from SREcon! https://google.smh.re/5Xcu

The Prodcast talks with John Allspaw -- twice!

John Allspaw of Adaptive Capacity Labs talks with the Prodcast about the challenges of dynamic systems, the value of learning, and more — in two parts, live from SREcon!

google.smh.re

September 14, 2026 at 9:56 AM

Google {bot}

@google.xmirror.bot

@Google is a sponsor of @usenix @SREcon

September 14, 2026 at 9:55 AM

Google {bot}

@google.xmirror.bot

We are looking forward to next week’s SREcon in Seattle! We are excited for the opportunity to hear from and connect with reliability engineering folks from many organizations. Lots of listening and learning ahead for us!
https://google.smh.re/5QPq

SREcon Ameriocas takes place next week!

We are looking forward to next week’s SREcon in Seattle! We are excited for the opportunity to hear from and connect with reliability engineering folks from many organizations. Lots of listening and learning ahead for us! Michelle Brush will present a keynote on “Taming the Unpredictable: Reliability in Chaos” https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/brush Our colleagues Ruben Barroso, Theo Klein, and Garrett Holthaus will present a workshop on STPA: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/stpa-workshop, as well as a talk on CAST: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/barroso. Google SWE Swetha Srinivasan will present a talk on Operationalizing Key Management: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/srinivasan and Bharath Modhipalli and Karanveer Anand will talk about “Shift-Left Compliance” https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas/presentation/modhipalli-compliance In the discussion track, Steve McGhee and Chris Jones are leading discussions on Infrastructure Management and on Architecture Decisions and Tradeoffs.

google.smh.re

September 14, 2026 at 9:55 AM

Sinjo

@sinjo.dev

Last call! Three hours to get those lightning talk submissions in.

#SREcon

Sinjo @sinjo.dev · Aug 25

For anyone attending #SREcon in Dublin this October: our lightning talk CfP is open!

Submissions close at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday 2nd September. We're excited to see your ideas ✌🏻

www.usenix.org/conference/s...

SREcon26 Europe/Middle East/Africa Call for Participation

SREcon is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to the...

www.usenix.org

September 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM

Sinjo

@sinjo.dev

For anyone attending #SREcon in Dublin this October: our lightning talk CfP is open!

Submissions close at 21:00 UTC on Wednesday 2nd September. We're excited to see your ideas ✌🏻

www.usenix.org/conference/s...

SREcon26 Europe/Middle East/Africa Call for Participation

SREcon is a gathering of engineers who care deeply about site reliability, systems engineering, and working with complex distributed systems at scale. SREcon strives to challenge both those new to the...

www.usenix.org

August 25, 2026 at 1:39 PM

Kube Events

@kube.events

👩‍🏫 Courses and 🎤 conferences to watch out for:

SRECon EMEA https://ku.bz/1lkFgD-8B

Devopsdays Almaty https://ku.bz/563f9LfVJ

Tech Fuse Des Moines 2026 https://ku.bz/tDwRBVWm_

August 16, 2026 at 2:26 PM

Brian Nisbet

@natural20.bsky.social

Very good SREcon talk on fire escapes and the first time I properly realised that truism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vs5...

SREcon18 Americas - The History of Fire Escapes

YouTube video by USENIX

www.youtube.com

August 14, 2026 at 10:40 AM

Chastity Blackwell

@blackisis.bsky.social

Wishing that GitHub had a name that would fit nicely into the "HipChat not so hip" quip that was used to describe that outage during SRECon...2016?

No points for guessing what award-winning wordsmith came up with that one, too.

July 24, 2026 at 4:32 PM

austin

@aparker.io

remember your srecon talk in rpgmaker? that was, what, like 5 years ago?

how long you think it’d take now?

July 12, 2026 at 1:36 PM

BABA Toshiaki

@netmarkjp.bsky.social

#ばばさん通信ダイジェスト賛否関わらず話題になった/なりそうなものを共有しています。

「アラーティング」の話をしよう— SREconや論文等の最先端とのギャップをみる
https://speakerdeck.com/yuukit/alerting-in-the-wild

「アラーティング」の話をしよう— SREconや論文等の最先端とのギャップをみる

https://speakerdeck.com/yuukit/alerting-in-the-wild

speakerdeck.com

July 7, 2026 at 11:55 PM

fjhuerta.bsky.social

@fjhuerta.bsky.social

At SREcon in Seattle, we also spoke with Sam Anderson about handling burnout, Ricard Bejarano about Home Labbing, John Allspaw about the value of learning, and Courtney Nash on complex systems.

Catch up with the Prodcast!

google.smh.re

July 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM

Google {bot}

@google.xmirror.bot

At SREcon in Seattle, we also spoke with Sam Anderson about handling burnout, Ricard Bejarano about Home Labbing, John Allspaw about the value of learning, and Courtney Nash on complex systems. (1/2)

June 30, 2026 at 11:30 AM

Google {bot}

@google.xmirror.bot

For this season, we met our guests in spaces and studios in New York, Pittsburgh, and Seattle. We kicked things off at SREcon, catching up with Colette Alexander and Clint Byrum of the “This is Fine!” podcast.

June 30, 2026 at 11:30 AM