Lessons on building data products at Google

Implementing site reliability (SRE) engineering doesn't have to be intimidating, and it isn't only for cloud-native organizations. Liz Fong-Jones and Dave Rensin share eight key lessons Google's customer reliability engineering team learned helping large enterprises adopt SRE as an operations engineering model.

Mike Newswanger explains how he used Kubernetes and Google Cloud to burst and extend the capacity of a physical infrastructure for optimizing almost 10 million images in less than two weeks.

It's a Kubernetes world. Join Ryan Gregg to learn about Knative, an open source collaboration between Google and other industry leaders to define the future of serverless on Kubernetes. Knative solves the difficult but boring aspects of running modern cloud applications on Kubernetes.

Spotify recently completed the migration of all services from running on bare-metal hardware to hosts in the cloud on GCP. Spotify is now in the exciting process of journeying from merely cloud hosted to cloud native via migrating the running of services to Kubernetes. James Wen discusses the work involved, lessons learned, and pitfalls encountered in moving services onto Kubernetes.

Jamie Wilkinson offers a brief overview of SLOs, shares a practical guide to implementing sustainable SLO-based alerting for systems of any size, and outlines the tooling required to supplement the system in the absence of cause-based alerting.

Monitoring only sucks when the cost of maintenance scales proportionally with the size of the system being monitored. Recently, tools have emerged that assist with scaling out monitoring configurations sublinearly with the size of the system. Jamie Wilkinson explores time series-based alerting and offers practical examples that can be employed in your environment today.