LISA17 - Persistent SRE Antipatterns: Pitfalls on the Road to Creating a Successful

Blake Bisset and Jonah Horowitz from Stripe talk about antipatterns they've seen when building SRE teams and how not to make the same mistakes they've seen (and made).

Persistent SRE Antipatterns: Pitfalls on the Road to Creating a Successful SRE Program Like Netflix and Google

Blake Bisset; Jonah Horowitz, Stripe

People aren't just wrong on the internet. Sometimes they bring it back to the office. We're here to debunk the biggest traps we've stepped in, spent good drink money learning about from other people who'd stepped in them, or seen someone who hadn't stepped in them yet propose as good practice. Save yourself some pain. Or just laugh at ours. The talk addresses specific anti-patterns we've seen in building teams and systems to manage service delivery for very large scale operations, and more appropriate ways to approach those issues.

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