How Stripe Invests in Technical Infrastructure
Explore Stripe's approach to prioritizing technical infrastructure investments, balancing firefighting and innovation, and enabling long-term success through strategic decision-making and resource allocation.
My Life as a Solo SRE
Transforming engineering culture: One SRE's journey from chaos to improved reliability, featuring practical tips on implementing SLIs, reducing incident response times, and fostering organizational change.
Why People - Don't - Use Password Managers Effectively
Explores user attitudes towards password managers, revealing differences between built-in and separate tool users, and provides insights to improve adoption and effective usage of these security tools.
In-toto - Providing Farm-to-Table Guarantees for Bits and Bytes
Explore in-toto, a framework ensuring software supply chain integrity from inception to deployment, addressing vulnerabilities and protecting millions of users across various cloud environments.
From Privacy by Design to Data Protection by Design - The Challenges of Turning Good Practice into a Legal Obligation
Exploring challenges of implementing Data Protection by Design under GDPR, including legal obligations, assessment criteria, and the role of privacy engineering in meeting comprehensive demands.
I'm an SRE Lead! Now What? How to Bootstrap and Organize Your SRE Team
Practical guide for new SRE leads on organizing teams, managing expectations, and implementing effective strategies. Covers phased approaches, lessons learned, and pitfalls to avoid in SRE journey.
Read as Needed - Building WiSER, a Flash-Optimized Search Engine
Explore WiSER, a flash-optimized search engine designed to maximize SSD performance. Learn about innovative techniques for high throughput, low latency, and efficient memory usage in search applications.
In Search of Security Shangri-La
Exploring the evolution of cybersecurity practices, challenges in integrating security into tech processes, and strategies for achieving a more collaborative and effective security approach in modern organizations.
Off the Beaten Path - Moving Observability Focus from Your Service to Your Customer
Explore shifting observability focus to customer experience, enhancing service reliability through direct engagement, innovative tools, and rethinking performance metrics for improved user satisfaction.
From Nothing to SRE - Practical Guidance
Practical guidance on implementing Site Reliability Engineering in smaller organizations, addressing unique challenges, gaining buy-in, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and experimentation.
Leading without Managing - Becoming an SRE Technical Leader
Explore technical leadership in SRE, focusing on strategic guidance without people management. Learn tactics for career growth, mentoring, and identifying impactful work opportunities.
A Differentially Private Data Analytics API at Scale
LinkedIn's privacy system uses differential privacy to protect member data while providing audience engagement insights, enabling marketing analytics with user-level privacy guarantees and strict budget management.
Twizzler - A Data-Centric OS for Non-Volatile Memory
Explore Twizzler, an innovative OS redesign for non-volatile memory, offering efficient data persistence, simplified programming, and improved performance over traditional systems.
Managing ML Models at Scale - Intuit’s ML Platform
Explore Intuit's ML Platform for scalable, secure model lifecycle management using GitOps, SageMaker, Kubernetes, and Argo Workflows. Learn about feature management, cost optimization, and enterprise-level ML model deployment.
Ten Persistent SRE Antipatterns - Pitfalls on the Road to a Successful SRE Program
Explore common pitfalls in Site Reliability Engineering and learn strategies to build successful SRE programs, drawing insights from industry leaders like Netflix and Google.
Identifying Hidden Dependencies
Discover how Honeycomb improved system reliability through intentional node termination, uncovering bugs and progressing towards continuous experimentation for enhanced resilience and scalability.
Continuously Improving Culture through Design Decisions
Explore how technical decisions shape DevOps culture, focusing on Two Sigma's COIN platform. Learn strategies for fostering collaboration, innovation, and community in tech environments.
Challenges of Starting an SRE Team from Scratch in an Enterprise
Insights on building an SRE team in a large enterprise, addressing challenges, establishing standards, and focusing on business priorities like security and cloud cost control.
The Smallest Possible SRE Team
Strategies for maximizing SRE impact with limited resources. Learn to leverage data, tools, and communication for effective small-scale SRE implementation and organizational influence.
Confessions of a Systems Engineer - Learning from My 20+ Years of Failure
Veteran systems engineer shares invaluable lessons from two decades of failures, offering insights on designing, running, and troubleshooting large-scale online services to help others avoid costly mistakes.
AIFM - High-Performance, Application-Integrated Far Memory
Explore AIFM, a high-performance system enabling efficient use of remote memory in datacenters. Learn about its API, runtime, and benefits for applications facing memory constraints.