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A comment on Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015). Parent comment

Re:Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs ... by stonogo on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @11:56PM (#13268492)
The presence of a "reliability engineer" raises the question of what the hell all the other engineers are there for.
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Re:Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs ... by cakeface on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @07:21AM (#13270043)
They are there to build features. Hopefully those features are something that solves business problems and ultimately drives revenue. Reliability is a requirement for a useful business system but is not a useful thing on its own. Your system needs to solve actual problems with software features to be useful. That is what the rest of the developers are rightly focused on.
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