Where do Data Scientists Come From?

What did they study? What other jobs have data scientists held?

Audit Your Web Applications with AVA

Hosting a web application is an excellent way to expose useful services to the public, but it…

New SRE on the Block

This talk was held on Wednesday, August 8, 2018.

New role, new company, and tons to learn: this is my story of becoming a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Indeed. I discuss my transition from a Software Engineer in the biomedical field to an SRE for the world’s #1…

Quantifying Empathy with Service Level Objectives

This talk was held on Wednesday, August 8, 2018.

Good SLOs mirror your users’ and business needs. When your users hurt, you want to know it. By feeling your users’ pain, you can discover the levels of service that hit…

Maintaining Reliability During Technical Churn

This talk was held on Wednesday, August 8, 2018.

New application features — especially those requiring application or data migrations — pose a potential risk to reliability and service level objectives (SLOs). Removing…