Site Reliability Engineering at Box, Inc.

The SRE teams at Box spend their time building the systems and services that support the world-class availability and performance of our customer-facing services. Come talk with us about what it takes to run services at scale!

SCHEDULE
5pm - Meet and Greet with light refreshments
6pm - Real-world Openstack vulnerability patching
6:45pm - Women in SRE Panel
7:30pm - PayPal DevOps transformation

Our first session will be an overview of Box's experience with vulnerability patching in our Openstack clouds. Like many real-world installations of Openstack, at Box we run workloads on VMs that aren't cloud-native, meaning they can't be transparently terminated and re-launched. Also like many real-world installations, our network architecture doesn't allow for transparent migration of workloads. This two factors combine to create an interesting challenge for how we can install operating system patches (especially kernel patches) across our Openstack control plane nodes and hypervisors. We'll discuss the alternatives we evaluated, the solution we currently have in place, the challenges we've encountered and lessons we've learned. If you're involved with running an Openstack environment that doesn't have perfectly cloud-y workloads in it, you'll find this very educational!

Our second session will be a panel discussion. The focus will be "Women in SRE". Come hear from our women disrupters who have entered and continue to grow in the world of SRE. In this session they will tell us what inspires them and what they love about their careers in Site Reliability Engineering and will share their thoughts about on how women thrive in this role and how to get more women on board.

The third session will be presented by PayPal. They will talk about their DevOps transformation and how creating an organization called "Embedded Site Reliability Engineering" has been transformational for product development teams to really embrace DevOps culture and practices.

ABOUT TRANSPORTATION: The building has a parking garage, use "900 Middlefield Rd, Redwood City, CA" in your GPS to find it. Parking there is open to the public after 5pm and is free for the first 1.5 hours and then $2.50 per hour after that. From the garage take the elevators marked PUBLIC ACCESS down to the ground floor. We are also right next to the Redwood City Caltrain station for super-convenient public transit access!