was great to read through your takeaways! I can't wait to watch The Ticking Time Bomb of Observability Expectations once the recordings drop and now I'm totes inspired to writeup my thoughts while they're still fresh 🌱
The SREcon24 Americas program is full of exciting talks, including:
Compliance & Regulatory Standards are NOT Incompatible with Modern Development Best Practices presented by Charity Majors of Honeycomb.io
Scam or Savings? A Cloud vs. On-Prem Economic Slapfight presented by Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group
20 Years of SRE: Highs and Lows presented by Niall Murphy of Stanza Systems
Visit the conference website to view the full program, and register today to join us in San Francisco, CA on March 18-20, 2024: https://bit.ly/sre24ams#SREcon
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Some examples: There’s the slider, for situations where more of one attribute comes at the cost of another. Or triangle for three attributes.
Teams may place emojis on the slider (tradeoff space), so they can see if everyone is mostly in agreement on where the option under consideration lands in the tradeoff space. And discuss differences. And compare alternative design choices.
It's all about how SREs can align their mental models of a system with reality to sustain software #resilience -- because SREs are a critical mechanism of adaptation in our systems.
If you're an #SRE you're probably not like, waking up thinking, "How will I be the mechanism of adaptation today?" so I wanted to provide some scaffolding around the concept in the talk.
🤸 Complex software systems require SREs to become active participants in the system to provide the sustained adaptability necessary for resilience.
Takeaway #2:
🐉 It’s impossible to anticipate all the ways a system will behave, especially as it grows in complexity and as the # of possible interactions increase. Software can steal the concept of resilience stress testing from other disciplines to better understand these interactions.
⛈️ #Chaos experimentation – #resilience stress testing in software systems – allows you to proactively uncover the hidden effects of stressors to your system(s) in a way that lets you be proactive about addressing them.
🌳 Adopting decision trees lets you discover and explore the ways you expect your systems to behave in response to the unexpected (and expected stressors and surprises, too), which you can use to guide your decision making for design and process refinements.
💾 The open source tool Deciduous (https://deciduous.app) is a practical means to start implementing decision trees in your organization and day-to-day work immediately.
Here's how to watch:
➡️ Navigate to the program page.
➡️ Click on the title of the talk you want to watch, which will open the page for that talk.
➡️ Scroll down to the bottom of the page, where you'll find the embedded video.
➡️ Share your favorite talks on social media and use the tag #srecon.