SREDAY

Site Reliability, DevOps and Cloud

June 12, 2025 Cologne, Germany

1
Days
12+
Speakers
1
Tracks
50
Attendees

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Schedule

Day 1

10:00

Coffee break

Main lobby


10:30

Staying in your lane: incident response for leaders

PagerDuty
During incident response, every second counts. As a leader, you're expected to have all the answers, and that pressure can make it very tempting to play the hero and take control of the response process. While "I'll just do it myself" may seem faster on occasion, this instinct can hinder your...

11:00

Platform Engineering for Private Cloud

VMware / Pivotal
_Platform engineering_ is the art of building and managing the infrastructure that powers your applications: a mix of cloud, a handful of DevOps, a pinch of SRE, and a thick glaze of product management. While it’s “nothing new,” many organizations are just starting to practice it—and for good...

11:30

Lunch & networking

Main lobby


DevOps XXL: How to Scale-up in Large Setups with SRE?

huettermann.net
This session derives Dos and Donts from very large setups. It aims to draw a thin line between DevOps and SRE, defines those two concepts and offers practical guidance how to leverage both. We discuss how to bring together the communities of DevOps and SRE. This interactive session is based on...

Cloud infrastructure with AWS Cloud Development Kit

Freelance SRE
This hands-on workshop guides engineers in developing cloud infrastructure using AWS CDK to make a web application public. Participants will learn how to spin up, deploy, and tear down cloud resources with a few console commands. Key technologies include AWS (CDK, S3, Lambda, RDS) and Ruby on...

13:30

Things Fall Apart: Navigating Managed Databases for Over a Decade as a Non-DBA

Funambol
Learn to navigate database benchmarks wisely! From crashing managed instances to skyrocketing storage costs, I'll share hard-earned lessons from a decade of managing production databases on the cloud without DBA expertise.

How to tame chaos effectively?

Pegasystems
Imagine a self-healing system that handles surprises, letting you sleep peacefully. If that sounds appealing, chaos engineering could be the answer. Trusted by Netflix, LinkedIn, Google, and Facebook, it's key for business resilience. In this session, we'll explore its history, learn how to apply...

From Firefighting to Future-Ready: How AIOps Empowers SREs to Build Resilient, Business-Driven Systems

Accenture
Explore how AIOps, combined with Observability and Chaos Engineering, is empowering SREs to transform IT operations into a strategic driver of business value. This session delves into strategies for achieving end-to-end visibility and resilience—from infrastructure and applications to business...

From Text to Visuals: Observe your GitHub repos efficiently

Grafana Labs
Whether you are just starting your journey as a DevOps Engineer or already an expert SRE, you need to use Git (e.g. GitHub, GtlLab) to maintain your code and track issues, PRs, commits, etc. You start with a few repositories but then it becomes difficult to get visibility into what's going on in...

Practical introduction to OpenTelemetry tracing

Loft Labs
Tracking a request's flow across different components in distributed systems is essential. With the rise of microservices, their importance has risen to critical levels. Some proprietary tools for tracking have been used already: Jaeger and Zipkin naturally come to mind. Observability is built on...

16:00

Speakers

Agnieszka Welian
Pegasystems
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Birol Yildiz
ilert
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Bohdan Pohorilets
Freelance SRE
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Dr. Michael Hüttermann
huettermann.net
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Kat Gaines
PagerDuty
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Michael Cote
VMware / Pivotal
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Michele Dodic
Accenture
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Nicolas Frankel
Loft Labs
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Renato Losio
Funambol
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Syed Usman Ahmad
Grafana Labs
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Venue

The offices of Ilert.com

Bayenstraße 65,
50678 Köln, Germany

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