SRE Munich at Google 2023

We’re excited to announce the next Meetup of the Site Reliability Engineering Munich group for September 26th.

This time around we will be meeting at Google in their Isarvalley event space! Lets all meet up again, talk about reliability, exchange ideas and see where we can continue to learn on our journey as site reliability engineers (and folks that aspire to be one!).

Meetups are about engaging within the community, so we are looking to everyone to share ideas and learn to ultimately to reduce the risk of disasters.

Please help to spread The Word! Feel free to post this event on social media using the #sremuc hashtag! You can reach the organizers at muc@sre.xyz (Ideas, Presentations, Comments)

Please note: Google requires us to register all guests with their real name. Please have a valid ID card with you, so you can be let into the building. Make sure your Meetup account names match your ID.

Agenda #

• 6:30 pm Get together with food and drinks
• 7:00 pm Welcome to SREmuc
• 7:05 pm Talk 1: Postmortem Culture at Google (Martin Höfling, Google)
• 7:40 pm Short break
• 8:00 pm Talk 2: Eliminating human error using self-service GitOps with Crossplane (Stéphane Di Cesare and Christopher Haar, DKB)
• 8:30 pm Talk 3: General Discussion
• 8:45 pm Networking + Drinks
• 9:00 pm Leave happy and inspired :)

Speakers #

• Martin Höfling is a Technical Program Manager at Google.
• Stéphane Di Cesare is a Senior Platform Engineer at DKB, where he is focusing on improving the developer experience and the developer acceptance of the internal platform. He also has a consulting background.
• Christopher Haar is Platform Tech Lead at DKB, where he is responsible of determining the technologies used by the internal platform. He is also one of the maintainers of the Crossplane open source project.

Topics #

Postmortem Culture at Google #

Postmortems are one of the key tools of SREs to not repeat the same mistakes and learn from past incidents. This introductory talk explains how to write a good Postmortem that can strengthen company culture when mistakes happen. Martin has been working in SRE at Google for many years now and will give you an insight into how Google does Postmortems.

Slides: Post Mortem Culture at Google

Eliminating human error using self-service GitOps with Crossplane #

In this talk, we are going to present what the typical challenges of a Platform team are. We will highlight the importance of self-service GitOps in a banking environment, and will explain how these principles are implemented at DKB, using the open source projects Crossplane and Flux. Speaker

Slides: Eliminating human error using self-service GitOps with Crossplane

Open Discussion #

Following the theme we started in our last Meetup, we want to discuss certain topics that the SRE community might be interested in. Examples could be the recent license change in Terraform, or the application of Generative AI in the field of Operations. We look forward to engaging in insightful conversations, fostering mutual learning, and collectively expanding our knowledge base.

Slides: Meetup Intro & Open Discussion

Photos #

Legal #

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