Sebastian Kirsch
Sebastian Kirsch has been a Site Reliability Engineer at Google since 2006.
Based in Sunnyvale, California, his nearly two decades of experience span
three countries and over ten teams, contributing to critical systems from
Google's web crawler to Google Maps, Google Calendar, and sensitive
infrastructure like payment processing and authentication. A seasoned speaker
at international conferences, Sebastian also contributed to the foundational
2016 book "Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems."
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Designing and Operating Highly Available Software Systems at Scale
Michael Wildpaner
Escuela Politécnica de Ingeniería de Gijón, Gijón (2019)
Interviewing for Systems Design Skills
SRECon18 Asia, USENIX Association, Singapore (2018)
Safe Client Behaviour
Shenzhen, China (2017)
Reliable Launches at Scale
SRECon17 Asia, USENIX Association, Singapore (2017)
Reliable Product Launches at Scale
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Rhandeev Singh
Vivek Rau
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, O'Reilly (2016)
Building Blocks for Site Reliability
International Industry-Academia Workshop on Cloud Reliability and Resilience, EIT Digital, Berlin, Germany (2016)
The Many Ways Your Monitoring Is Lying To You
SRECon16 Europe, USENIX Association, Dublin, Ireland (2016)
