The many facets of an SRE with Alexandra Franz
About this episode
Alexandra Franz discusses her journey to becoming an SRE and the challenges of managing capacity during high traffic events.
From Systems Engineer in Aeronautics via many clouds to becoming an SRE in Observability! That's the path from our guest, Alexandra Franz who is a Lead Product Engineer in SRE at Dynatrace. Tune in and learn how their team plans ahead for expected high traffic around Black Friday, Cyber Monday or the Super Bowl. We discuss how regional traffic patterns and differences in available hardware get factored in for capacity management and cost control. We also learn why global cloud outages are stressful - but - how those incidents can also be the reward for a good SRE. Make sure to connect with Alexandra on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrafranz/
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