Summary

To establish and retain customer trust, organizations need to ensure that their technology teams operate with operational excellence and best practices in mind. This includes incorporating DevOps and SRE methodologies where relevant to maximize productivity while also reducing risk and error.

Google Cloud is greatly positioned to enable these practices, not only because there is tooling built into the platform to help adhere to these practices but also because Google pioneered both DevOps and SRE. This means that open source projects such as Istio and Prometheus are adopted quickly and provided as managed services on the platform and that Google will build native tooling to facilitate running environments with excellence.

The Google Cloud Digital Leader certification is a great stepping stone into both the Google ecosystem and more generally the cloud space. It is built on a foundation of practices pioneered by Google across topics such as DevOps, SRE, machine learning...