Why SRE Conf?
When any organization goes from product market fit or beta test phase to production rollout, or from first x customers to 10x or 100x customers and starts scaling, they typically start running into challenges with systems stability and resiliency. These challenges change with every phase of growth. So does the need for having a SRE team and/or a DevOps team, and the role these teams play.
Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to what roles these teams should play, and which tools various teams should use to track the metrics and processes involved. But there are some common building blocks that apply in similar (and different) ways and forms for most teams. The idea of the SRE Conference is to get together and to know about these building blocks, share and learn about the themes that fall under the SRE umbrella.
SRE Conf tracks
SRE Conf is a two-track conference. The track, “Culture, career and Evolution” is more focused on leadership, team, and organizational topics while the “Stories from the Trenches” track will cover real-world scenarios, and lessons learned which will help engineers and engineering teams to upskill themselves by understanding experiences from their industry peers.
Culture, career, and evolution
- SRE v/s DevOps v/s Platform Engineering teams in organizations.
- Hiring and building SRE teams.
- Blameless postmortems.
- Role of AI in SRE/DevOps/Platforms.
- FinOps and cost optimization.
- SRE Anti-patterns
Stories from the trenches:
- Incident management.
- Change management.
- Scalability and performance.
- SLA/SLO and golden signals.
- Security and DevSecOps.
- Systems and networking.
Key takeaways for participants
- Improved understanding of organizational needs and requirements.
- Enhanced optimization skills.
- Networking opportunities.
- Knowledge sharing and community building.
Who should participate
- Members of SRE, DevOps or platform teams.
- A software developer or manager who is responsible for services running on any cloud platform or on-prem data center.
- Technology leader of an engineering team that manages critical systems which should have minimal to zero downtime.
Speaking
If you are interested in speaking at the conference, submit your talk idea here. The editors - Sarika Atri and Safeer CM - will review your talk description and give feedback.
Speakers will also receive feedback and assistance during rehearsals from reviewers including Rolland Santimano, Saurabh Hirani, Satyajeet Jadhav, and Sitaram Shelke.
Guidelines for speaking, speaker honorarium policy, and travel grant policy details are published here.
About the editors
This conference is curated by Sarika Atri and Safeer CM.
Sarika Atri is Software Architect with over 20 years experience in the industry. Sarika reviewed talks for Rootconf Cloud Costs Optimization conference.
Safeer CM is Senior Staff SRE at Flipkart. He is author of Architecting Cloud-Native Serverless Solutions published by Packt.
Become a Rootconf Member to join
SRE Conf is a community-funded conference. It will be held in-person. Attendance is open to Rootconf members only. Support this conference with a membership. If you have questions about participation, post a comment here.
Sponsorship
Sponsorship slots are open for:
- Tool and solutions providers.
- Companies interested in tech branding for hiring.
Email sponsorship queries to sales@hasgeek.com
Contact information
Join the Rootconf Telegram group at https://t.me/rootconf or follow @rootconf on Twitter.
For inquiries, contact Rootconf at +91-7676332020.
Accepting submissions till 30 Sep 2023, 11:59 PM
Not accepting submissions
The themes for SRE Conf are explained here
Submission structure guidelines
If you are interested in speaking at the conference, note the following guidelines for making a submission:
- Abstract - share a short abstract (of 500-1,000 words) describing the talk and why someone should attend it. Vague abstract is one of the main reasons why talks get rejected. Spend time thinking about what are you sharing and why are those learnings important.
- Overview video - A short (<= 2 min) video expanding on the abstract to showcase. Think elevator pitch, and what specific areas will you address in your talk.
- If you already have slides, please share them. If this is a repeat talk of a previous one done by you, please call it out and share links.
- You can also strengthen your case by sharing links to your previous talks, blog posts or interesting GitHub repos that you feel back up your pitch as a speaker.
- Basis the above criteria, your talk will be evaluated. Watch your submission for comments from editors, and for status updates.
Some good reference submission guidelines.
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon20americas/proposal-guidelines
- https://us.pycon.org/2023/speaking/guidelines/
Preference will be given to talk experiential talks such as case studies, journeyman stories and implementation stories.
The call for submissions will close on 30 September. Talks will be selected on a rolling basis, as individuals make submissions.
If you have questions about submitting a talk or speaking at the conference, post a comment here
Travel for outstation - domestic and international - speakers
Rootconf is a community funded organization. Individuals join as members and contribute to the community’s monetary pool. The current community pool doesn’t provide for travel grants for SRE Conf.
Speakers may note the following:
- Speakers (or their companies) can fund their travel and accommodation for the conference in exchange for sponsorship credits.
- Speakers delivering talks as part of sponsored talks will have to cover their own travel and accommodation. This will not be counted as part of sponsorship credits.
Speaker honorarium
SRE Conf is funded by the Rootconf membership pool. Speakers will be paid an honorarium of Rs. 3,000 provided funds are available from the community pool. If a talk has two speakers, the honorarium amount will be split between two speakers.
Honorarium will be paid after the conference is completed, subject to funds being available from the community’s pool.
Make a submission
Accepting submissions till 30 Sep 2023, 11:59 PM
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