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Site reliability engineering: 5 things you need to know

Dynatrace

The term “site reliability engineering” was coined in 2003 by Google VP of Engineering Ben Sloss , who famously noted on his LinkedIn profile that “if Google ever stops working, it’s my fault.” ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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Site reliability engineering: 5 things to you need to know

Dynatrace

The term “site reliability engineering” was coined in 2003 by Google VP of Engineering Ben Sloss , who famously noted on his LinkedIn profile that “if Google ever stops working, it’s my fault.” ” According to Google, “SRE is what you get when you treat operations as a software problem.”

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Mitigating Capability Risk

The Agile Manager

Given all the variables that can change – core technologies and compatibilities, emergent best practices, staff turnover, and a business environment that can best be described as “turbulent” - traditional approaches of “managing to plan” have a low risk tolerance.