Build & maintain complex distributed systems
October 1–2, 2017: Training
October 2–4, 2017: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY

Blake Bisset
Chief Turtle Stacking Officer, Independent

Blake Bisset got his first legal tech job at 16. He won’t say how long ago, except that he’s legitimately entitled to make shakey fists while shouting, “Get off my LAN!” He’s cofounded three startups—a joint venture with Dupont/ConAgra, a biotech spinoff from UW, and one that started this time a bunch of kids were sitting around on New Year’s Eve, wondering why they couldn’t watch movies on the internet—only to end up spending a half-decade as an SRM at YouTube and Chrome, where his happiest accomplishment was holding the go/bestpostmortem link for several years.

Sessions

4:45pm–5:25pm Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Persistent SRE anti-patterns: Pitfalls on the road to creating a successful SRE program like Netflix and Google
DevOps & Tools
 Location: Gramercy
Blake Bisset (Independent), Jonah Horowitz (Stripe)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 2 ratings)
People aren't just wrong on the internet. Sometimes they bring it back to the office. Blake Bisset and Jonah Horowitz share stories about anti-patterns in monitoring, incident response, configuration management, and more and explain how Google and Netflix view the role of the SRE (and how it differs from the traditional system administrator role). Read more.