Laura Nolan, Stanza
Laura looks at the common architectural shapes of dynamic control planes, and some examples of how they fail spectacularly - many major cloud outages are caused by dynamic control plane issues. Why are dynamic control planes so hard to run, and what can be done about it?.
Laura Nolan is a software engineer and SRE. She has contributed to several books on SRE, such as the Site Reliability Engineering book, Seeking SRE, and 97 Things Every SRE Should Know. Laura is a Principal Engineer at Stanza, where she is building software to help humans understand and control their production systems. Laura is a member of the USENIX board of directors and a long-time SREcon volunteer. She lives in rural Ireland in a small village full of medieval ruins.
author = {Laura Nolan},
title = {How We Went from Being Astronauts to Being Mission Control},
year = {2024},
address = {San Francisco, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = mar
}
