Kurt Andersen, Clari, and Laura Nolan
Are you confused by the alphabet soup: PRRs, ICS, MTTR, o11y, SLOs, SLIs? Is SRE the same thing as DevOps? Will doing everything the SRE books say lead to success and a good night's sleep oncall?
By day, Kurt works as an infrastructure software architect at Clari. In addition, he serves on the USENIX Board and has had the pleasure to work with amazing people around the globe in the SREcon conferences. He also helps with the annual SRE survey and report that is graciously supported by Catchpoint.
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. Relevant to this session, she also holds an MA in Ethics from Dublin City University. 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 = {Kurt Andersen and Laura Nolan},
title = {{SRE} 101},
year = {2025},
address = {Dublin},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = oct
}