DevOps Careers: Report Examines What It Takes To Be an SRE

March 30, 2018 by Tony Bradley 0 Comments

Do you want to be a site reliability engineer, or SRE? Sixteen years ago, the role didn’t actually exist, but now you can find more than 1,000 opportunities for a career as an SRE on LinkedIn. Before you decide if you want to explore such a career, though, you should check out the new survey […]

SRE vs. DevOps — a False Distinction?

May 18, 2017 by Asaf Yigal 5 Comments

Just a few days before he died at the beginning of the 1990s, a wise man taught us that “the show must go on.” Freddie Mercury’s parting words have long provided the guiding light for many, if not all, ops teams. In their eyes, the production environment should be exposed to minimum risk, even at […]

SRE vs. DevOps vs. Cloud Native: The Server Cage Match

May 3, 2017 by Rob Hirschfeld 3 Comments

This post supports my DevOpsDays Austin Presentation on May 4 I don’t believe in DevOps shaming. Our community seems compelled to correct use of DevOps as an adjective for tools, teams and teapots. The frustration is reasonable: DevOps clearly taps into head space for both devs and operators who see a brighter automated future together. […]

Site Reliability Engineering: How to Make the Operations Side of DevOps Actually Work

April 28, 2017 by Dominic Wellington 2 Comments

The DevOps movement often has been accused of focusing too much on the first half (Development) and not enough on the second half (Operations). Certainly there has been more attention paid to deployment of payloads than to operating running systems, leading to the dismissal of the handover between Dev and Ops as “throwing it over […]

Is Site Reliability Engineering the True ‘Ops’ in DevOps?

April 26, 2017 by Jayne Groll 1 Comments

I recently had the privilege of attending the SRECon conference in San Francisco. It’s in its third year and 650 attendees gathered to learn and share their experiences, insights and site reliability engineering (SRE) practices. Most SRECon attendees either identified as SREs or were there to learn more about this new role and approach. While […]

Making Performance More Than a Best Practice

November 4, 2016 by contributor 0 Comments

Yes, you read that correctly: SRE means that strong application performance—speed, reliability and availability—no longer is simply a best practice. It is a must. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is a term Google coined several years ago, and while there is no universal definition, SRE can be thought of as a discipline that blends software engineering […]