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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. trying to reduce the amount of manual work and ensuring all the components (infrastructure/hardware, middleware, software, etc.) At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Being Practical

Tim Kadlec

Nick Finck and Steve Champeon first coined the term “progressive enhancement” in 2003. In a comment on my last post I referenced the Boston Globe and how it appears on Google Glass. The point is not that we all need to be testing on Google Glass—time will tell how well that device does. Here at Yahoo!, That was 2008.

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