Emil Stolarsky

I press buttons to make the pattern of lights change however I want.

Previously, I was the co-founder of Incident Labs creating a whole host of SRE related tools & products, an SRE at DigitalOcean building the internal Kubernetes platform, and at Shopify working on caching, performance, and disaster recovery.

Writing

• Co-editor of 97 Things Every SRE Should Know with 70 of the top SREs in the industry
• Chapter on Scriptable Load Balancers in Seeking SRE: Conversations about running production systems at scale
• Interview with Brian Anderson on the power of scriptable load balancers
• Building Shopify's flash sale checkout queue:
  • Surviving flashes of high-write traffic using scriptable load balancers (Part I)
  • Surviving flashes of high-write traffic using scriptable load balancers (Part II)

Talks/Conferences

• Program co-chair of SREcon19 EMEA and SREcon20 Americas
• Incident insights from NASA, NTSB, and the CDC - Strangeloop 2017
  • Software Engineering Daily interview
  • InfoQ interview
  • Slides
• Failovers @ Shopify - SREcon Europe 2017
• Unleashing the power of scriptable load balancers - Velocity 2017, San Jose
• Flash Sale Engineering - SREcon Europe 2016
• Testing Rails at Scale - RailsConf 2016

Projects

• record_store - Manage DNS through a git-based workflow
• OrgoShmorgo - organic molecule visualizer built using D3.js
• gekko - Market Share Visualization using D3's Treemap & AngularJS
• 2048 Multiplayer - Multiplayer version of the once popular 2048

Other places

• Twitter
• GitHub
• Speakerdeck
• LinkedIn

Contact

[email protected]