About the Authors

Michael Kehoe is a distinguished author, speaker, and senior staff cloud and reliability architect at Confluent. In his current role, he is spearheading a comprehensive initiative to revamp the company’s cloud platform.

Previously, as a senior staff site reliability engineer (SRE) at LinkedIn, Michael played a pivotal role in orchestrating LinkedIn’s seamless transition to the Microsoft Azure platform. His expertise in reliability engineering was instrumental in ensuring the platform’s stability and performance. During his tenure at LinkedIn, Michael led critical initiatives in incident response, disaster recovery, visibility engineering, and reliability principles. He was also embedded with the profile, traffic, and espresso (KV Store) teams. Having successfully overseen the construction of LinkedIn’s final physical data center, Michael assumed a pivotal role in shaping the infrastructure blueprint for LinkedIn’s expansion into Microsoft Azure.