A Journey To The Site Reliability Engineering

A Comprehensive Guide For Aspiring SREs

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Many organizations have started adopting Site Reliability Engineering(SRE) practices to run their operations instead of traditional. The latest LinkedIn Job search show 190,000+ job openings for Site Reliability Engineers worldwide.

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If you are still no familiar with SRE, then here is how Google describes it —

SRE is what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations team.

SRE is defined by 7 important principles — 
* Operations is a software problem
* Managed by Service Level Objectives 
* Work to minimize the toil
* Automate this year’s job away
* Move fast by reducing the cost of failure
* Share ownership with the developers
* Use the same tooling, regardless of function or job title 

Site Reliability Engineering could be a great career move for individuals coming from backgrounds…