Eric D. Schabell: WTF is SRE 2023 - Perses workshop and telling SRE tales

Monday, January 23, 2023

WTF is SRE 2023 - Perses workshop and telling SRE tales


I'm getting ready for a raw and real experience at this new (for me) event called WTF is SRE 2023, to be hosted in London from 3-5 May 2023.

This is the fourth edition and they are putting on four tracks; Observability, Reliability, DevEx and DevSecOps. 

You must be asking the same thing I was when I got this invite to submit, what is WTF is SRE? Well they say, "It is a highly-rated, very-tweeted-about, ridiculously-fun, wildly-insightful two-day conference designed to improve the world of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)."

As you can tell from the tone and style, these have got to be some really fun people to hang out with for a few days, so I'm all in with the following submissions.

The first talk I put in was a bit of a different take on helping SREs tell their best stories about production and hopefully expand their toolbox with the ability to convince management to take action on their suggestions for improvements.

Telling Effective Tales about Production

Storytelling is as old as time itself…. Since the beginning of humankind, we share our experiences, we teach, we inspire, we relate to stories as told all around us. How can we learn to use this powerful mechanism to tell effective tales about our production environments when dealing with our management teams? 

Learn how humans listen to stories (tales) more than they pay attention to pages of charts, dashboards, and data. If you want to learn how to make sure your message lands and how to effectively manage upwards in your organization, this is the session for you. Attendees will depart with a small yet powerful set of actionable examples that almost ensure your stories will capture your management's attention. One thing is certain, stories are being told, but what are your production stories and how can you become adept at telling them?

Key takeaways - attendees to this session will be given a small yet powerful set of examples to help them effectively communicate system risks and opportunities upwards to leadership and across engineering domains.. Humans listen to stories (tales) more than they pay attention to pages of charts, dashboards, and data. Learn how to tell your production stories and ensure your message lands with your management.

The second session is a preview of the my workshop around a new open source dashboard and visualization project called Perses, which is trying to create a standard around how dashboards are designed. This session shares a free hands-on workshop on now to get started with this project.

Perses - Beginners Guide to Open Source Dashboards

Are you interested in the concepts of cloud native observability (o11y), where monitoring, dashboards, and all that goes with that play a central role in your life? Are you part of a DevOps team looking to put together some simple yet powerful custom dashboards but are not sure where to start? This session will take you through the freely available online workshop that teaches you everything you need to know about Perses, the newest member of the CoreDash community. It's a project providing you the tooling you need to create crisp, clear, and informative dashboards for your cloud native o11y needs. Join us for an hour of power where attendees will be guided through what the Perses project is, how to install the project locally, and get started building your first dashboard(s). 

Key takeaways - attendees to this session will be given a tour of how they can get hands-on with labs for learning what Perses is, how to install it locally, and get started building their first dashboard(s). After this session they can take the workshop free online at their own pace: https://o11y-workshops.gitlab.io/workshop-perses

Here's hoping I will be hanging out with all the cool SRE kids in the Spring in London!

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