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Register today for SREcon24 Americas! The Early Bird registration and hotel reservation deadlines are coming up on Monday, February 26. More info here: https://bit.ly/sre24amsreginfo

The program includes talks such as:

*Sharding: Growing Systems from Node-scale to Planet-scale* presented by Adam Mckaig of Stripe

*Patching Your Way to Compliance with a Small Team and a Pile of Technical Debt* presented by Filipe Felisbino of Udemy

*Autopsy of a Cascading Outage from a MySQL Crashing Bug* presented by Jean-François Gagné of Aiven and Swetha Narayanaswamy of HubSpot

*Measuring Reliability Culture to Optimize Tradeoffs: Perspectives from an Anthropologist* presented by Kathryn (Casey) Bouskill of Meta

Have you registered for SREcon24 Americas yet? https://bit.ly/sre24ams Visit the website to register and view the full program which includes these talks:

*The Invisible Door: Reliability Gaps in the Front End* presented by Isobel Redelmeier of Discord

*Navigating the Kubernetes Odyssey: Lessons from Early Adoption and Sustained Modernization* presented by Raul Benencia of ThousandEyes, part of Cisco

*99.99% of Your Traces are (Probably) Trash* presented by Paige Cruz of Chronosphere

*Product Reliability for Google Maps* presented by Micah Lerner and Joe Abrams, both of Google

Register today for SREcon24 Americas, which will take place on March 18-20, 2024 in San Francisco, CA: https://bit.ly/sre24amsreginfo

The program includes talks such as:

*System Performance and Queuing Theory - Concepts and Application* presented by Jeff Poole of Vivint / NRG

*Cross-System Interaction Failures: Don't Fail through the Cracks* presented by Tianyin Xu and Xudong Sun of University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

*The Ticking Time Bomb of Observability Expectations* presented by David Caudill of Capital One

*Capacity Constraints Unveiled: Navigating Cloud Scaling Realities* presented by Kevin Sonney and Marc-Andre Dufresne, both of Elastic

The SREcon24 Americas program is full of exciting talks, including:

*Compliance & Regulatory Standards are NOT Incompatible with Modern Development Best Practices* presented by Charity Majors of Honeycomb.io

*Scam or Savings? A Cloud vs. On-Prem Economic Slapfight* presented by Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group

*20 Years of SRE: Highs and Lows* presented by Niall Murphy of Stanza Systems

Visit the conference website to view the full program, and register today to join us in San Francisco, CA on March 18-20, 2024: https://bit.ly/sre24ams #SREcon

The submission deadline for the 2024 USENIX Conference on Privacy Engineering Practice and Respect's Call for Participation is less than a month away on Monday, February 12! https://bit.ly/usenixpepr24cfp

PEPR '24 is soliciting proposals for 10- and 15-minute original talks, and 45-minute panels featuring discussions with 3–5 speakers. We are particularly interested in talks addressing the following themes: building, practice, applied research, and holistic systems and governance.

PEPR '24 will take place on June 3–4, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara in Santa Clara, CA, USA. Know someone who should submit a proposal or attend the conference? Please share this CFP with them.

The program is now available for SREcon24 Americas! https://bit.ly/sre24amsprog The Diversity Grant application is also open--look under Attend > Grant Opportunities on the conference website. The deadline to apply is February 12. Please spread the word!

:blobcheer2:​ Exciting news: Registration for #SREcon 24 Americas and the conference guest room block at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco are now open! :blobcheer2:​ We've heard your feedback and are opening registration earlier than ever.

Register now and reserve your hotel room at the discounted USENIX rate. The conference will take place on March 18–20, 2024, and the program will be available soon. Visit the conference website for more information, including key dates and deadlines: https://bit.ly/sre24ams

Are you between jobs? USENIX Champion, Sustainer, and Advocate members are eligible to request a needs-based hardship discount, which includes those who lack employer support. More information is available via the registration information page: https://bit.ly/sre24amsreginfo

Pssssst....SREcon24 Americas talk and panel proposals are due Tuesday, October 31 at 11:59 pm PDT--that's today! 🎃​
View the CFP: https://bit.ly/sre24amscfp

Know someone who should submit a talk proposal for SREcon24 Americas? Please make sure to share the Call for Participation with them! The deadline for submissions is Tuesday, October 31 at 11:59 pm PDT. https://bit.ly/sre24amscfp #srecon

IMPORTANT REMINDER! The Fall deadline for the USENIX Security '24 call for papers is Tuesday, October 17! That's either tomorrow or today, depending on when you're reading this. View the CFP and access the submission link here: https://bit.ly/usesec24cfp

The videos from USENIX ATC '23 are now available to watch on the Technical Session page: https://bit.ly/usenixatc23tech
Open the page for the individual talk you'd like to view, and the video will be embedded at the bottom of the page.

🥳​ There are only a few days left to save! ​🥳​ Register by Monday, 18 September, for SREcon23 Europe/Middle East/Africa to take advantage of the Early Bird discount; conference registration rates increase after this date.

View the program: https://bit.ly/sre23emeaprog

In addition to this year's exciting program, there are multiple opportunities to connect with other attendees, exchange ideas, and strengthen your professional network:
➡️​ Daily luncheons
​➡️​ Reception and evening activities
➡️​ Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BoFs): attendees gather and discuss topics of mutual interest

Did you know that USENIX is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization? As part of our mission, we are committed to open access: http://bit.ly/aboutusenix If the content we provide is valuable to you, please consider supporting USENIX by making a donation or becoming a member at usenix.org

The Call for Participation for SREcon24 Americas is now open! The conference will take place on March 18–20, 2024 in San Francisco, CA, USA. This year, our theme will focus on tradeoffs. View the CFP: https://bit.ly/sre24amscfp #SREcon

Videos from SREcon23 Asia/Pacific are now available!

Navigate to the program page: https://bit.ly/sre23approg. Click on the title of the talk you wish to watch, and it will open up an individual page for that talk. Scroll to the bottom, and you'll find the embedded video there.

This content is freely available to watch and share thanks to USENIX's open access policy, which is part of our mission as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. If open access is important to you, please consider supporting USENIX by making a donation or becoming a member at usenix.org.

Take Action Now: Register and reserve your hotel room by Monday, August 21, to take advantage of discounted registration and special USENIX room rates for PEPR '23!

Attending PEPR provides a valuable, in-person opportunity to have conversations and make connections for future collaboration and professional growth.

Don't delay--make plans to join us next month in Santa Clara: https://bit.ly/usenixpepr23

Congratulations to this year's winner of The USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award (The Flame), presented earlier this week.

Steven M. Bellovin, Matt Blaze, and Susan Landau have made a profound and lasting impact on Computer Science, Computer Security, Law, and Public Policy through their groundbreaking research, their influential publications, and their dedication to advancing knowledge that informs public policy. They have shown how knowledge of technology is vital for lawyers, judges, and legislators, and have been pioneers in applying their expertise in those domains.

Read more about the award: https://www.usenix.org/about/awards/flame

USENIX Security '23 is SOLD OUT. Please do not plan to walk into the venue and register on site.

The event has reached maximum physical capacity, and we will not be able to accommodate any additional registrations.

Registration remains open for the Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2023).

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