John Looney, Reddit, and James Beal
This session is an opportunity for people to come together and discuss managing cost, facilitated by our knowledgeable guides. This is not a prepared talk or workshop—expect a less-formal session with plenty of opportunity to ask questions and to talk to other attendees who are interested in managing cost.
John Looney, Reddit
John is a platform engineer who helps senior engineers tune their applications to cost less, and makes Kubernetes cost less to run. Both projects required making promises to product teams - “that the compute platform will be reliable enough that they don’t need to pad out resources to ensure a quality experience for hundreds of millions of Redditors.” He’s a long-term speaker at SRECon, ranging from distributed systems to how data privacy law impacts SREs.
James Beal[node:field-speakers-institution]
James started playing with computers with the ZX81, learned C for his A Levels, and has degrees in computer science and parallel and distributed systems. He has been using Linux originally with MCC Interim Linux and later with other distributions. He started volunteering at the OTW 14 years ago when the organization only had two servers (it now has three racks).
author = {John Looney and James Beal},
title = {Managing Cost},
year = {2024},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}