SRE and Incidents at tech events
14 write-ups · 9 events · 2025–2026
I collect sessions on reliability and incident response here. Across the Java user group at Doctolib, RoachFest, Azure Heroes and KubeCon, the recurring themes are how teams learn from outages, how resilience is designed into data and cloud systems, and what the on-call experience looks like in practice.
2026
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Form3: How a Payments Platform Survives Cloud OutagesKevin Holditch of Form3 on why regulators forced a V1 to V2 rebuild across three clouds, and how CockroachDB keeps quorum writes safe across all of them.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Surviving a Real GCP Outage: A Multi-Cloud CockroachDB Story from RoachFest London 2026A RoachFest London account of a real GCP outage with zero platform impact thanks to a multi-cloud CockroachDB architecture.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
When Kubernetes Pod Disruption Budgets Aren't Enough for Multi-Cloud CockroachDBWhy cluster-scoped Kubernetes Pod Disruption Budgets can silently break quorum for multi-cloud CockroachDB, and how a custom cross-cluster PDB fixes it.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
RoachFest London 2026: Distributed SQL Meets AI ResilienceRecap and full video playlist from RoachFest London 2026: CockroachDB's AI agent vision, Form3 multi-cloud payments, and Primer's migration.
25 Jun 2026 · RoachFest London 2026 · London
Major Tim Peake at RoachFest London: What Space Missions Teach EngineersMajor Tim Peake's RoachFest London keynote on launch day nerves, spacewalk training, psychological safety, and a decision framework for incident response.
27 May 2026 · Amsterdam Java User Group meetup at Doctolib · Amsterdam
I Lost a Day to @Retryable — Amsterdam JUG at DoctolibKath Alfaro Ramirez shares how a silent Spring AOP proxy bug cost a day of debugging at Doctolib, and why @Retryable is the dangerous outlier.
23 Mar 2026 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 · Amsterdam
Rootly at KubeCon EU 2026: AI SRE Agents That Go On-CallMet JJ Tang, co-founder and CEO of Rootly, at KubeCon EU 2026 Amsterdam. AI SRE platform that triages incidents automatically, only paging humans when.
17 Feb 2026 · SRE NL: What Your Dashboards and Your Brain Won't Tell You · Amsterdam
SRE NL at Elastic: OpenTelemetry and Your Brain's BiasesSRE NL's 'What Your Dashboards and Your Brain Won't Tell You' at Elastic Amsterdam: an OpenTelemetry demo, then the cognitive biases behind bad incidents.
2025
18 Nov 2025 · Azure Heroes Amsterdam meetup · Amsterdam
Azure Heroes Amsterdam: Testing, Chaos and AI SafetyNotes from the Azure Heroes meetup in Amsterdam: Playwright, load testing, Chaos Studio, PSRule, red teaming, GitHub Models and Prompt Shields.
7 Nov 2025 · SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4 · Amsterdam
SREday Amsterdam 2025 Q4: Observability, MCP, ClickStackNotes from SREday Amsterdam, 7 November 2025: decoupled observability, ClickStack, platform engineering for AI, securing MCP servers and Azure automation.
30 Oct 2025 · SRE NL meetup (Learning from Incidents) · Amsterdam
SRE NL Amsterdam 2025: Learning from IncidentsSRE NL at Datadog Amsterdam, October 2025: Busra Koken on why people, not systems, learn from incidents, then SRE culture and why engineers skip postmortems.
23 Sept 2025 · EDGECASE 2025: The Multiverse Saga · Amersfoort
EDGECASE 2025 Amersfoort: Talk, Booths and InterviewsEDGECASE 2025 in Amersfoort: Justin Garrison's Disney+ story and booth interviews with Chainguard, Dell, Veeam, Sysdig, Sidero, HCS and TrueFullstaq.
3 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
Kubernetes at Scale: LinkedIn and New Relic, KubeCon 2025Two Kubernetes at scale talks from KubeCon London 2025: LinkedIn's bare-metal platform with ~5k-node clusters and New Relic's cell-based multi-cloud design.
2 Apr 2025 · KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 · London
KubeCon London 2025: Kernel Lockup and Safety RulesDay two of KubeCon London 2025: keynote slides on CNCF at ten years, and a Fastly talk with a kernel lockup postmortem and five production safety rules.