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Ask HN: Recommended conferences for a senior SRE?

7 points by yazr 9y ago

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

atsaloli 9y ago
https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa17 https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa17 https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon18americas https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon18americas
- yazr 9y ago
  Thanks. Looks interesting!
  - atsaloli 9y ago
    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/session/setting-cicd-pipelines https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa17/training-program/se...
akoria 9y ago
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.