How new SRE hires can get stuck There’s more than one way to mess up your new SRE hire and get them stuck in a loop. Here are 6 ways new hires will know you’ve made this mistake: This article will unpack these 6 sticking points and show how to solve them. Later on, I … Read More
Who should pay attention to this article ❌ SRE at a very small startup with few users rarely makes a difference until you’ve reached a fair userbase size or have growing pains ❌ Many organizations without a strong money/legal incentive e.g. SLAs tied to their operations, cannot justify diving into a complex field like SRE … Read More
Episode 1 [SRE Review Podcast] Listen to this episode now: In this maiden episode of SRE Review, I cover the following articles:
Episode 5 [SREpath Podcast] Listen to this episode now: We discuss throughout this episode the different engagement models for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and how to contextualize SRE into an organization’s structure. Sebastian Vietz, an experienced SRE practitioner, suggests five different engagement models for SRE and emphasizes the importance of considering the cost associated with … Read More
Episode 4 [SREpath Podcast] Listen to the episode now: This episode discusses how Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) can be important to organizations. SRE can help: We will also cover how to integrate SRE into the organization’s culture for continuous improvement and innovation.
In this article, you will see a breakdown of the platform setup and SRE practices within 12 non-FAANG technology companies. This is based on the case studies by Andrios Robert. “There is a lot of content available on how Google did [Site Reliability Engineering]; let’s uncover what happens with the rest of the world.” — … Read More
So much has been debated lately about the emergence of “Platform Engineering” as a solution to software operations problems. It’s an interesting proposition. However, it is not your silver bullet that will fix all things one felt didn’t work out with Dev versus Ops, DevOps, or SRE. We are missing something very important in our … Read More
We will explore the workings of the Team Topologies model and how Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams can fit into it. In more detail, I will share with you the following: Let’s get started. Overview of team topologies Team topologies is a relatively new model/framework, having been officially introduced in 2019. It’s a response by … Read More
Introduction Every time you push a button like the one below to request an Uber ride, you activate a sequence of (micro)service requests. You’d never know unless you look under the hood because most of these services run solely in the background. Yet every service contributes to the start and completion of the Uber ride … Read More
This article aims to help engineering leaders consider issues before starting a software reliability team. Since I am an advocate for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), we will now refer to such a team as the “SRE team”. Besides creating a new team, leaders face many responsibilities that are often invisible to individual contributors and their … Read More
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