How We Went from Being Astronauts to Being Mission Control

Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 4:45 pm5:30 pm

Laura Nolan, Stanza

Abstract: 

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, Stanza

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.

BibTeX
@conference {295047,
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
}