What is the value proposition of SRE for the DevOps 360° evolution?
We will start this chapter with a small conceptual overview of what SRE is, before looking into its value proposition for the DevOps 360° evolution. SRE is a concept conceived by Google, sometime around 2003, when the first Google SRE team was formed. During the summer of 2016, the first official Google publication, under the title Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems, officially introduced SRE into the world of DevOps. Since then, several financial services institutions (including ones that I have worked for/with) have started to embrace the concept – some of them by understanding its practical value and finding success with it, with others admiring its “coolness” and creating more LinkedIn posts and job titles than finding any real success.
How does Google define SRE?
According to posts on Google Blogs, SRE is a broad concept and open to various interpretations...