SRE

So today marks the end of SREcom19 Asia/Pacific here in Singapore. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to make it to the conference this year, but hey, it’s Friday night and what better way to spend the time than to catch up on what I missed from the conference, right? I head straight to the #srecon tag on Twitter and there it is, a fellow named Dan Lüdtke kindly wrote a summary of (some of) the talks from each day.

This year I was lucky enough to attend this event again. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed it, it retained the single-track style, which meant it was easy to catch all the talks and also contributed to the cozy feel of the event, it wasn’t too busy. As always, I again found the hallway conversations one of the best parts of the event - the smart people that have gathered together and the setting & context provided by the conference ensured there were plenty of interesting topics to discuss.

This is my first attendance to SREcon (or any other USENIX conference for that matter), so I decide to arrive early to mingle over breakfast. Somewhat surprisingly, there are only a dozen or so people here (the rest are arriving late I subsequently find). Breakfast is pretty good and even the pre-brewed coffee is drinkable, so that’s a good start. I notice that Facebook have a desk with people present already, maybe they’re still jetlagged, most of them are from USA or European offices.