The latest News and Information on Service Reliability Engineering and related technologies.
In this episode Jason is joined by Gustavo Franco, Senior Engineering Manager at VMWare, to chat about chaos in the Gustavo’s early days. Gustavo reflects on Googles early disaster recovery practices, to the contemporary SRE movement.
Cloudflare is a global cloud services provider that is based all over the globe, from San Francisco, US to London, England to Sydney, Australia. Their mission, as stated front and center on their homepage, is to help build a better Internet. While that may read like hyperbole, their numbers are impressive - Cloudflare has over 126,000 paying customers and 95% of Internet Users in the developed world are within 50ms of their network.
SREs and SWEs complement each other, but they perform different tasks and focus on different priorities.
Software development is getting faster and more complex – frustrating IT operations teams more than ever. So, DevOps gained popularity in order to combat siloed workflows, decreased collaboration and a lack of visibility. While establishing a culture of DevOps has helped teams collaborate better and deliver reliable software faster, DevOps teams don’t necessarily have someone specifically dedicated to developing systems that increase site reliability and performance.
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One of the most challenging tasks for Site Reliability Engineers is to align the reliability of the systems with the business goals. There is a constant battle between delivering more features—which increases the product’s value—and keeping the system reliable and maintainable. A significant ally to achieve both objectives is the Service Level Objective Framework.