Build Systems that Drive Business
Sep 30–Oct 1, 2018: Training
Oct 1–3, 2018: Tutorials & Conference
New York, NY

Small-scale engineering

effie mouzeli (Wikimedia Foundation)
3:50pm–4:30pm Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Location: Murray Hill
Average rating: ****.
(4.67, 3 ratings)
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What you'll learn

  • Learn tips for small-scale engineering

Description

Scaling to hundreds of hosts and serving thousands of requests per second is interesting and hard. But what about when everything is smaller? How can a tiny team—or even one systems person working alone—make sure small but vital systems stay reliable? Are SRE practices still relevant?

Effie Mouzeli explains why small-scale engineering is just as challenging as large-scale engineering and offers ideas on how to survive technical debt, poor communication, and other everyday challenges.

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effie mouzeli

Wikimedia Foundation

Effie Mouzeli is a site reliability engineer at the Wikimedia Foundation, where she’s one of the newer members of the SRE team. She studied physics and scientific computing but decided to follow neither. Instead she became a sysadmin, later a systems engineer, now an SRE. She worked in a number of startups and small organizations where her responsibilities were usually automation, infrastructure architecture, and working closely with developers. Away from work, she loves camping, concerts, and dressmaking.