[Speaker Announcement]
Laura Nolan
Principle Software Engineer at Stanza
We’re delighted to welcome back Laura Nolan to ShipItCon 2023. This is Laura’s third time speaking at SIC and we’re looking forward to an entertaining and thought provoking talk.
Speaker Bio: Laura is a software engineer who has focused on reliability for the decade while at Google and Slack working across domains ranging from large data pipelines to edge networks. She has contributed to a number of books including the ‘SRE book’, Seeking SRE, and 97 Things Every SRE Should Know, as well as being a regular columnist for USENIX ;login: magazine. Laura grew up in Dublin, holds degrees from all three of TCD, UCD, and DCU, and currently lives in Kildare in a very unreliable old house.
Session Title : How to Make Your Automation a Better Team Player
Synopsis :
The role of SREs and other software operators has moved from making direct changes to running systems and configurations towards building tools and control planes that actually run our systems, or reusing automation systems built by others.
We haven’t talked too much about this as a field, but it is a profound shift in the nature of our work. Now we need two skillsets: our traditional software and systems skills that we use to plan work and react to anomalies; plus a newer skillset that focuses on building and managing automated systems that make the overall system – software and humans – more reliable.
We are not yet good at build automation to be a good team player. This talk explores the problems in this domain and some ways that we can make progress.