The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data: Bonus Bits
A footnote to my #SREcon talk on how databases implement crash safety, with extra details for database nerds โ๐ป๐
https://blog.sinjakli.co.uk/2025/11/29/the-computer-wants-to-lose-your-data-bonus-bits/
My #SREcon talk โ The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data โ is now up!
Lots of in-the-weeds details on how databases achieve durability and how small mistakes can turn into big problems.
I am pleased to report that I did not catch COVID from #SREcon. One of the best big conference venues I've been in, CO2 levels stayed under 650 in the main keynote rooms and below 800 in even the low ceilinged rooms and expo hall!
the #SREcon post-event dinner I went to last night was at a pub named "Dockers" which was a wee bit on the nose...
That's a wrap for this year's #SRECon
See you all next year in Dublin!
#SRECon 3rd and final day.
Lots of interesting talks, particularly Andreas Strikos from GitHub's "CPU Utilization: The Hidden Cost of Running Hot"
#SRECon Slideshow Karaoke is always so much fun!
If you were at my talk โ The Computer Wants to Lose Your Data โ the slides are now up!
Here's the customary 1000ft view of about half of them.
OH "If any of you are using Ubuntu 16.04...maybe don't raise your hands."
John Looney of Crusoe was discussing this at his morning keynote yesterday at #SREcon - describing "clean energy parks" where power consumers and producers gather, similar to the previous generation of network connectivity hubs.
Apparently a giant wind farm being built in western IE for this too.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4jjekvbxopsdtmezsmycpveb/post/3lzwcsqyb3225
"You all hate computers." Well, someone knows his audience! ๐ #SREcon
Next #SREcon talk is another one of the many AI-related ones at this conference. Todd Underwood, the speaker of "SRE for GenAI and GenAI for SRE?" is from Anthropic. And I have to concede that he's really good at it.
#SRECon Day 2 opening plenary, "HyperRouter: Lessons Learnt from Building an L4 Load Balancing Service"
Arrived a little late for day 2 of #SREcon, but luckily I haven't missed much of the first talk to which I was looking forward: "Lessons learned from building an L4 load balancing service". #SRE
Slides for my #SREcon talk on Fast, Reproducible Builds with Docker Bake: drive.google.com/file/d/1g-H6... Fun fact, 42% of our codebase (by LOC) was written this year, and we're only 9 months in! And yes, we're doing 2x builds & merges per week with only 50% more devs, thanks, AI & fast builds!
#SRECon Lerna Ekmekcioglu presenting "Resilience for Al Workloads at Scale: The Fast and the Finicky!"
Mustering all my post-lunch attention for the #SREcon talk "50 Shades of Caching (and how LLMs are painting it black)" because AI bots are an increasing concern for us and our customers at @freistilbox.
