SREcon26 Europe/Middle East/Africa

USENIX's European site-reliability conference: three days of deeply technical talks on SRE, systems engineering and running complex distributed systems at scale, with a culture of critical thought that pitches to newcomers and decades-long veterans alike. The programme is co-chaired by Stephane Dudzinski (Crusoe AI) and Philip Rowlands (Jane Street). Runs 13 to 15 October at the Convention Centre Dublin; the full programme is on the USENIX site. Late registration is US$1,300 (US$950 for students), with discounts for USENIX members and a hardship rate for those who are unemployed, retired or without employer support. The cancellation deadline has passed. Why go: the most serious reliability conference to come to Europe, and this year it is on Dublin's doorstep, with its evening fringe of meetups across the city. For SREs, platform and infrastructure engineers, and the managers who own uptime.