December 16, 2019

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Database reliability engineering: What, why, and how?

Database reliability engineering: What, why, and how?

SRE is becoming quite the ubiquitous term, but what about DBRE? Laine Campbell and Charity Majors dive into DBRE, exploring the paths to this craft and how to culturally evolve and support it. Laine and Charity focus on organizational scale, self-service, and force multipliers in recoverability, observability, availability, security, release management, and infrastructure.
Talk Title Database reliability engineering: What, why, and how?
Speakers Laine Campbell (Fastly), Charity Majors (Honeycomb)
Conference O’Reilly Velocity Conference
Conf Tag Build Resilient Distributed Systems
Location San Jose, California
Date June 20-22, 2017
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SRE is becoming quite the ubiquitous term, but what about DBRE? Laine Campbell and Charity Majors dive into DBRE, exploring the paths to this craft and how to culturally evolve and support it. Laine and Charity focus on organizational scale, self-service, and force multipliers in recoverability, observability, availability, security, release management, and infrastructure.

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