David has over thirty years of experience in the systems administration/DevOps/SRE field in large multiplatform environments. He is the curator/editor of the O’Reilly Book Seeking SRE: Conversations on Running Production Systems at Scale and author of the O’Reilly Otter Book (Automating Systems Administration with Perl). He is a co-founder of the wildly popular SREcon conferences hosted globally by USENIX. David currently works for Microsoft as a senior cloud operations advocate focusing on site reliability engineering.

Session: SRE101: Lessons From A Parallel Universe