David Blank-Edelman is the program lead for Microsoft’s SRE Academy, the program for onboarding and training of Azure’s SREs and others who strive to improve reliability and quality. He has roughly 40 years of experience in the operations space. David is co-founder of the SREcon conference, editor/curator of Seeking SRE (O’Reilly) and the author of Becoming SRE (O’Reilly).