The manifesto

We offer the first version of The Site Reliability Engineer Manifesto here.

We, the Becoming a Rockstar SRE authors and technical reviewers, met together to discover better ways of defining the SRE persona.

We believe we can create a more unified, concise, and solid SRE persona by stating that an SRE’s essential responsibilities are as follows:

• SREs make sure their systems are reliable and not just available and resilient
• SREs guarantee all systems and applications are observable and under monitoring
• SREs manage systems, services, and infrastructure to learn how to automate arduous work
• SREs use data science and statistical methods to understand the observability data
• SREs identify, measure, and reduce arduous work arising from operations and engineering
• SREs implement test cases, execute software delivery tests, and stay ahead with capacity planning
• SREs employ chaos engineering to unveil systemic weaknesses in production
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