Google SRE NY Tech Talk

Google SRE NYC proudly announces our second Tech Talk event in 2024.
The in-person only event will take place on Wednesday, 22nd of May 2024 at 6 PM at our Chelsea Markets office in NYC. The doors will open at 5:30 pm.

We invite you to join us for an hour of short talks on Site Reliability and DevOps topics with an opportunity to meet and talk with fellow engineers over light snacks and beverages.

When RSVP'ing to this event, please enter your full first name and full last name, this needs to match your government issued ID you will be required to present at check in.

Agenda:
Sal Furino - Customer Reliability Engineer (CRE) at Bloomberg
“The Hammer Changes the Hand”
Imagine you’re observing a worker swinging a hammer. As they swing the hammer, they make small adjustments to better hit and drive the nail or rivet into the surface. These adjustments are made unconsciously. The hammer has become an extension of their arm. It’s important to consider that the arm doesn’t just change the hammer; it gives it new meaning beyond that of simply some wood and steel.
But the hammer also changes the arm! Weeks, months, years of swinging that hammer changes the worker themselves.
The tools we use change us and enable us to think and interact with the world differently.
This talk will briefly explore how to view internal tooling through the lens of product management in not just developing and shipping features, but how those features empower teams to change their understanding of their social-technical systems.

Sal Furino is a Customer Reliability Engineer. During his career he’s worked as a TPM, SRE, Developer, Sys Admin, and IT support. While not working he enjoys cooking, gaming, traveling, skiing, and golfing. Sal lives in Queens and has a BS in Applied Mathematics from Marist College.

Thiara Ortiz - Staff CDN Reliability Engineer at Netflix
“How we measure Quality of Experience to ensure our members get a world class experience they have come to expect from Netflix ”
Any time a Netflix member sits down, reclines in their chair and turns on their TV to Netflix, there's a moment of truth. It's an opportunity to deliver a spectacular service with amazing quality of experience. Misses, errors, or high latency that prevent individuals from streaming, as a result of ISP configuration changes, code deployment, or catastrophic fallback, result in an impact on how our service is perceived. This talk will go over how we measure the quality of experience for our members and how we work to develop new metrics when we have additional offerings like live streaming and cloud gaming.

Thiara has worked at some of the largest internet companies in the world, Meta and Netflix. During her time at Meta, Thiara found a passion for distributed systems and bringing new hardware into production. Always curious to explore new solutions to complex problems, Thiara developed Fleet Scanner, internally known as Lemonaid, to perform memory, compute, and storage benchmarks on each Meta server in production. This service runs on over 5 million servers and continues to be utilized at Meta. Since Meta, Thiara has been working at Netflix as a Senior CDN Reliability engineer. Her focus is primarily on resilience and quality of experience for members streaming from Open Connect. When incidents occur and Netflix's systems do not behave as expected, Thiara can be found working and engaging the necessary teams to remediate these issues.

Mike Scherbakov - Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google
"LLM for SRE / Using LLM in SRE space"
LLMs open up an opportunity to automate and scale many operational processes, which couldn't be otherwise solved by conventional methods. Examples include simple summarization of issues and incidents, assisting production on-callers, managing incidents, clustering (creating taxonomy) of issues, scaling SRE via assisted review of development design documents. Therefore LLMs provide a new and unique opportunity to transform the work we do as SREs.

Mike works in YouTube Ads SRE as well as co-leading LLM4SRE, LLM center of competency in SRE at Google

Our Tech Talks series are focused on professional development and networking: no recruiters, sales or press are allowed. Google is committed to providing a harassment-free and inclusive conference experience for everyone, and all participants must follow our Event Community Guidelines. The event will be photographed and video recorded.
Event space is limited! A reservation is required to attend. Reserve your spot today and share the event details with your SRE/DevOps friends 🙂