Looking at SRE Needs and Trends over Two Decades with a Single Service - SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa

Explore the evolution of Site Reliability Engineering through the lens of Google's distributed lock service, Chubby, in this 35-minute conference talk from SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa. Discover how a quick solution for leader election in infrastructure grew to provide critical services like service discovery and config-file distribution. Gain insights into foundational experiences with monitoring, caching, proxying, and isolation, learning from both successes and challenges. Examine the maturation of SRE practices over two decades and hear predictions for the future direction of the field. Presented by Salim Virji from Google LLC and Murali Suriar from Snowflake, this talk offers valuable lessons for SRE professionals and those interested in the development of critical infrastructure software.

SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa - Looking at SRE Needs and Trends over Two Decades with a...