Speaker: Fred Hebert
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Staff SRE @Honeycombio
Fred Hebert is a staff SRE at Honeycomb.io, caring for SLOs and error budgets, on-call health, alert hygiene, incident response, and operational readiness. He has previously worked as a software developer of all ranks for over a decade and ended up with a healthy dislike of computers and clumsy automation. He’s a published technical author who loves distributed systems, systems engineering and has a strong interest in resilience engineering and human factors.
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Session
Embrace Complexity; Tighten Your Feedback Loops
When dealing with an environment that feels chaotic and unreliable, a common tendency is to look for ways to reduce variability and bring things back under control through procedures, hierarchy, metrics, and standardization.