SRE Role and Definition
The cluster focuses on defining Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), debating its responsibilities, hype, comparisons to DevOps and SWE, and its implementation at companies like Google and Amazon.
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Because a SRE is just a software engineer that’s always on call?
SRE = Site Reliability Engineer?
What you are descibing is an SRE... in the old Google definition.
Does this also apply to their SRE teams?
You sure you don’t mean SWE? SREs care about reliability
Why is this not part of the SRE hype train?!
SRE: because DevOps isn't buzzwordy enough these days.
Is SRE the most inflated ego job title in tech?
How is you having been a Google SRE relevant?
SRE = Site Reliablity Engineering