Talks and Videos from Steve

Here you’ll find a collection of video presentations I’ve given at various conferences and meetups.

Google Cloud Next 2024 = Developer Keynote (UNCUT)
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Google Cloud Next 2024 = Developer Keynote (UNCUT)

August 21, 2025

YouTube

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Google Cloud Next 2024 = Developer Keynote (UNCUT)

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Reliable Systems through Platform Engineering
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Reliable Systems through Platform Engineering

September 28, 2024

SRE NEXT 2024

Online

Infrastructure breaks, but systems can persist! We really want systems that withstand unavoidable failures. In this talk, Steve presents concepts like spanning failure domains and using generic mitigations through Platform Engineering.

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Infrastructure as code
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Infrastructure as code

August 22, 2024

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Steve discusses infrastructure as code and how to get started

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Achieving DORA outcomes by building reliability | Steve McGhee | SREday San Francisco 2024
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Achieving DORA outcomes by building reliability | Steve McGhee | SREday San Francisco 2024

June 22, 2024

SREday San Francisco 2024

San Francisco, California, United States

SREday 2024 - June 22 2024 - Harness, San Francisco, California, United States

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Archetypes for Reliable Systems
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Archetypes for Reliable Systems

May 2, 2024

YouTube

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Steve McGhee and Ameer Abbas present a model for designing and running cloud services

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Panel Discussion: Modern Monitoring and Observability
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Panel Discussion: Modern Monitoring and Observability

November 3, 2023

YouTube

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Struggling with effective monitoring for your services? Not sure how to handle the volume of information your environment creates? Join us for a panel discussion about Monitoring and Observability, featuring Jason Hand of Datadog, Ernest Mueller of Accenture, Steve McGhee of Google, and Peco Karayanev of PagerDuty. Hosted by PagerDuty DevOps Advocate Mandi Walls.

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Two Paths in the Woods
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Two Paths in the Woods

October 26, 2023

SLOconf 2023

Online

Steve McGhee and Sal Furino present two independently developed methods for teaching SRE topics to customers

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Safe serverless deployments with Cloud Run
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Safe serverless deployments with Cloud Run

October 26, 2023

YouTube

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Discusses safe serverless deployments with Cloud Run

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Achieving DORA outcomes via Reliability Engineering in your Platform
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Achieving DORA outcomes via Reliability Engineering in your Platform

October 26, 2023

YouTube

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Achieving DORA outcomes via Reliability Engineering in your Platform.

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Build Reliable Applications with Kubernetes and Istio
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Build Reliable Applications with Kubernetes and Istio

October 5, 2023

YouTube

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Steve McGhee and Ameer Abbas discuss building reliable applications using Kubernetes and Istio

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How to get started with SLI/SLO
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How to get started with SLI/SLO

August 15, 2023

YouTube

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Steve McGhee shares his expertise on SLI/SLO implementation at Google

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Rootly Humans of Reliability
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Rootly Humans of Reliability

April 10, 2023

YouTube

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Steve McGhee discusses his role and thoughts on reliability in a segment with Rootly

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Enterprise Roadmap for SRE
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Enterprise Roadmap for SRE

January 30, 2023

DevOpsDays Boston 2022

Boston, MA

Presentation on implementing SRE in enterprise environments

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Observability Fundamentals: Open Standards

November 16, 2022

Is It Observable

Online

Steve McGhee gives a lightning talk on observability

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Non-standard SLOs: beyond availability

November 16, 2022

Is It Observable

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Steve discusses non-standard SLOs beyond just availability

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SRE in Enterprise

October 1, 2022

USENIX

Unknown

Steve McGhee and James Brookbank discuss challenges and strategies for SRE adoption in enterprises, based on the 'Enterprise Roadmap for SRE' O'Reilly report.

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How VMs are the Matryoshka doll of compute
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How VMs are the Matryoshka doll of compute

January 29, 2022

Unknown

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Watch as they share their thoughts on a cloud-native future, including how you can tell how reliable an engineering pattern is and knowing which parts of your system you should upgrade!

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Putting SRE Principles in Platform Engineering
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Putting SRE Principles in Platform Engineering

July 1, 2020

YouTube

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Steve McGhee discusses reliability and his work at Google

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Build a Software Delivery Platform with Anthos
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Build a Software Delivery Platform with Anthos

October 26, 2012

YouTube

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In this session, Cloud Solutions Architects Vic Iglesias, Ameer Abbas, and Steve McGhee explain how with Anthos and GitLab you can build a multi-team platform for streamlining CI/CD, policy management and developer onboarding across your organization and teams. This talk will walk through the reasons for building a platform in your organization and then demo common developer, operator, and security engineer tasks to show how the patterns can improve your company's software delivery performance. Learn more about Anthos → https://goo.gle/37isRHK Check out content more from our KubeCon Anthos Day event → https://goo.gle/AnthosDay.

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