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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 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
Stories from the trenches:
If you are interested in speaking at the conference, submit your talk idea here. The editors - Sarika Atri, Safeer CM and Saurabh Hirani - will review your talk description and give feedback.
Speakers will also receive feedback and assistance during rehearsals from past speakers such as Sitaram Shelke.
Guidelines for speaking, speaker honorarium policy, and travel grant policy details are published here.
This conference themes were set up by Sarika Atri and Safeer CM. Together with Saurabh Hirani, the three editors have:
Sarika Atri is Software Architect with over twenty years experience in the industry. Sarika was reviewer for Rootconf Cloud Costs Optimization conference held in July 2023.
Safeer CM is Senior Staff SRE at Flipkart. He is author of Architecting Cloud-Native Serverless Solutions published by Packt.
Saurabh Hirani is former editor of Rootconf, and a passionate member of the community. Saurabh is SRE at Last9.io,. He has a keen interest in mentoring speakers.
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 slots are open for:
Email sponsorship queries to sales@hasgeek.com
Join the Rootconf Telegram group at https://t.me/rootconf or follow @rootconf on Twitter.
For inquiries, contact Rootconf at +91-7676332020.
Accepting submissions
Not accepting submissions
The themes for SRE Conf are explained here
If you are interested in speaking at the conference, note the following guidelines for making a submission:
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
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:
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.
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Sreeram Venkitesh  Scaling neetoDeploy from zero to production - Building, maintaining and optimizing our cloud deployment platformAt BigBinary, we’ve been building neetoDeploy for the past one year. more
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Biju Chacko How to Hire SREsShort Abstract One of the biggest challenges of leading SREs is increasing capacity to respond to business need. Demand almost always outstrips supply. Hiring is usually the fastest solution but only if it is planned and executed well. more
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siddharth shashikar Multi-tenant observability for cloud-native stack - What, why, and howAbstract Observability is the key tenet of running a multi-tenant Kubernetes environment. In this talk, I’ll cover the what, why, and how of setting up multi-tenant Observability using open-source tools. This multi-tenant system supported 800+ B2B customers across multiple public clouds and private data centers. more
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Vineeth Vadrevu  Beyond Proxy: Authentication, Hybrid Cloud Connectivity & Encryption using Apache Traffic ServerBeyond Proxy: Authentication, Hybrid Cloud Connectivity & Encryption using Apache Traffic Server. Apache Traffic Server software is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 & HTTP/2 compliant caching forward and reverse proxy server. Its opensource and used by several major CDNs and content owners. Due to the nature and scale of Hadoop Big Data, some crucial use-cases present unique challenges; s… more
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Anush Arvind SRE's learnings from incidents to build a robust test driven infrastructure development frameworkIn the rapidly evolving landscape of Software as a Service (SaaS) products, the core infrastructure serves as the backbone that upholds user experiences, reliability, and scalability. As demands on SaaS products grow, the need for a robust and agile development approach becomes paramount. Enter Test-Driven Development (TDD) - a methodology renowned for its effectiveness in software development, y… more
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