Ask HN: Recommended conferences for a senior SRE?

Posted by yazr on Sunday October 15, 2017 @06:29AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have "a friend" at work - a Site Reliability Enginner

What would be a good conference for him to visit ? He initially wanted to go to SC17 but i don't think he will enjoy himself there.

Any recommendation ?!

We do mostly HFT, advanced VPNs, back end clusters

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Re:Ask HN: Recommended conferences for a senior SRE? by akoria on Sunday October 15, 2017 @03:26PM (#15478795)

Well, "i don't think he will enjoy himself there"... what's the goal? Is it to learn something or to have fun? ;) ;)

I would recommend stepping a little outside his/her comfort zone and learn something completely different or adjacent to the current skill-set. For example, if the primary end-user of his efforts is a VPC on HyperV, adjacent: go to a Microsoft virtualization conference; completely different: go to vmWorld.

Also consider locale and time of year. Vegas can be brutal in the summers, but the fall and spring are Goldilocks.

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Re:Ask HN: Recommended conferences for a senior SRE? by atsaloli on Sunday October 15, 2017 @08:45AM (#15476885)

https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa17

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon18americas

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Re:Ask HN: Recommended conferences for a senior SRE? by yazr on Tuesday October 17, 2017 @02:48PM (#15493653)

Thanks. Looks interesting!

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Re:Ask HN: Recommended conferences for a senior SRE? by atsaloli on Thursday October 19, 2017 @10:55AM (#15508434)

You are welcome! Hope to see you there! I'll be teaching "Setting up CI/CD pipelines" at LISA. https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa17/training-program/se...

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