There’s one skill that has been a large part of the success I’ve had as an SRE and it has nothing to do with technical knowledge or understanding the inner workings of Kubernetes. It’s my soft skills and how I work with others.

2020 was a rough year for tech conferences. Particularly in-person conferences. We were very fortunate that the situation in Perth was largely under control by November. This allowed the team at Mechanical Rock to push on with hosting Latency Conf with a cast of all-local speakers including a really great locknote by Coach Adam Simpson from the West Coast Eagles.

Learn how a social gaming company from Australia builds their product stacks to maximize product agility and engineering efficiency. The talk covers effective ways to leverage containers, infrastructure-as-code and the cloud to build product stacks that not only deliver business value but also make engineers excited to work on them.