Site Reliability Engineering

Hope is not a strategy

A site reliability engineer (SRE) is a software engineer that focuses on solving operational issues with software, creating Service-Level-Objects minimizing toil of manual tasks, reduce the cost of failure, and share ownership with developers.

Tenants

• Availability
• Latency
• Performance
• Efficiency
• [[change-management]]
• [[monitoring]]
• [[capacity-planning]]

Principles

• Embracing-risk
• Eliminating-toil
• Monitoring-distributed-systems
• Automation
• Release-engineering
• Simplicity

References

• SRE Book

Related

• Capacity planning
• Change management
• Monitoring
• Site Reliability Engineering