SREcon22 Europe/Middle East/Africa

For SREcon this year, we want to raise the question: “What could SRE be?”

Previous years have explored what the current state of SRE is. This year, we want to explore both the edges and the foundations of what it is we do. As usual, every talk submission is absolutely welcome, but we are particularly interested in receiving forward-looking talk proposals that set out a new vision for any of the areas SRE touches. For example:

• Do you have an idea for how to reinvent graphical displays of monitoring information?
• Have you some insights from cognitive science that could be applied to incident response?
• Is there a larger vision that would help to illuminate how to solve capacity planning for not just your team, but (say) everyone using major cloud platforms?

We are also deeply interested in talks which don’t push the boundary, but re-lay the foundations:

• How can we model reliability better?
• Can we start to understand how different reliability profiles affect user service “stickiness”?
• What tradeoffs exist between reliability and feature work in a backlog?
• Are there alternative descriptions of production requirements to the “Dickerson pyramid“?