SRE MUC 2026 Edition at Google

This time around we will be meeting at Google. Let's meet up, 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 reduce the risk of disasters. You can reach the organizers at muc@sre.xyz (Ideas, Presentations, Comments).
Please help to spread The Word! Feel free to share this event on social media using the #sremuc hashtag!

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. If you cannot attend, please be responsible and cancel your attendance to allow another person to attend.

Agenda:
6:30 pm Get together with food and drinks
7:00 pm Welcome to SREmuc
Talk 1: The second edition of the SRE Book: What has changed in the last decade
Talk 2: (This can be you, talk to us if you want to present a topic :D )
Discussion: Learning from other emergency response services
9:00 pm Networking + Drinks
9:30 pm Leave happy and inspired :)
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Speakers & Abstract:
Talk 1: The second edition of the SRE Book: What has changed in the last decade
Christof Leng / Google
Google's SRE Book is widely considered "the bible" of Site Reliability Engineering. In 2026 we published a completely rewritten second edition of the book. While the core principles of SRE have stood the rest of time, Google and the industry have learned many things since the publication of the first edition in 2016. This talk gives an overview of what to expect from the new book and how the SRE discipline has evolved in the last ten years.

Speaker Bio:
Christof Leng has been working as a Site Reliability Engineer for Google for more than 11 years in the Dublin and Munich offices. He is an author and editor for the second edition of "Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems". He has worked on systems in Google's ads, cloud, and internal developer infrastructure and has been building and managing infrastructure and has various teams in these areas over the years. He has been responsible for central Google SRE programs like the SRE engagement model, production excellence (ProdEx), and production launch reviews. Christof holds a PhD in computer Science from TU Darmstadt and has been a postdoc at ICSI and UC Berkeley. He has been a vice president for the German Informatics Society (GI). Christof lives in Darmstadt with his wife, three children, and two cats.