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Review of Google’s Site Reliability Engineering Hierarchy
Google’s book on SRE, Site Reliability Engineering (2016), has captured wide acclaim in the software operations world. One of the most discussed aspects in SRE circles about the book is its SRE hierarchy. The hierarchy has merit, but it’s also flawed in a way that would prevent you from educating people about SRE. I’ll get…
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How cloud infrastructure teams evolve – from start to maturity
I recently read a post by Will Larson, who started SRE at Uber. The post is called the Trunks and branches model for scaling infrastructure organizations. Several passages in the post covered how infrastructure teams can evolve from the startup phase. I felt it would be easier to comprehend the dense-and-rich advice with a visual…
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Cloud infrastructure success is a fine balance of budget and service quality
The visual summary below is based on a post by Will Larson, who started the SRE function at Uber. His post elaborates on a “trunks and branches” model for developing infrastructure-facing teams. It also covered an interesting perspective on the balancing act of budget and service quality. I will explain the visual summary underneath it.…
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Site Reliability Engineering Culture Patterns
Who should read this: Introduction Despite its now antiquated sounding name, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) as a discipline has strong future promise to proactively improve software reliability in production. As software complexity continues to increase, so will the need for better and better practice of SRE. It is undoubtedly an exciting but enigmatic field, with…
Category: Visual Summaries
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