Mark Henderson joins us from the Stack Overflow SRE team.

Show Notes

Mark Henderson joins us from the Stack Overflow SRE team to discuss a bit about the SRE team, what Stack Overflow's SREs are responsible, and how Stack Overflow uses Elastic.

The SRE team ingests between 600-800GB per day to their logging cluster and uses that data for triage and troubleshooting.

Stack Overflow manages their instances using puppet and have an automated patching system used for automated system patching.

You can find Mark Henderson on Twitter at @thefarseeker.





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