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What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

Dotcom-Montior

The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. One minute an SRE might be provisioning storage in AWS, the next minute an SRE might have to talk to customers or go write some Python code for a new project. Monitoring. Incident Response. On-call Support.

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Rethinking the 'production' of data

All Things Distributed

That was the provocative thesis of a much-talked-about article from 2003 in the Harvard Business Review by the US publicist Nicolas Carr. Breuninger, a fashion department store chain steeped in tradition, has recognized this and relies on a self-developed e-commerce platform in the AWS Cloud. Strategically, IT doesn't matter.

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WebPageTest API

CSS - Tricks

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