What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’?

Re:What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’? by inopinatus on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:42AM (#14156515)

DevOps is a concept, not a role. It means breaking down the silos and allowing processes, ideas, capabilities to run across both SWE & operations teams. I never knew a really first-class *nix sysadmin who wasn't also a kernel hacker, so this isn't anything new, it's just got a label.

Probably the most devops-y thing you can do in an applications environment is operate a continuous delivery pipeline.

The most un-devops-y thing you can do is start a devops team.

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Re:What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’? by tyingq on Thursday April 20, 2017 @09:46AM (#14156541)

Whether it's correct or not, it's a named title people are hiring for. https://www.indeed.com/q-DevOps-jobs.html

So I thought it worth mentioning as one of those hybrid roles.

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Re:What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’? by inopinatus on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:35AM (#14156975)

That's a great example. There's nothing in those job listings that wasn't, conceptually speaking, in the job description of a system engineer or sysadmin thirty years ago.

In this usage of "DevOps" it's a buzzword, and I recommend you should avoid anyone who puts buzzwords in your job title, because it speaks volumes up front about their culture and values and clarity of thinking.

I really do like the descriptor Site Reliability Engineer, though, for exactly the same reasons.

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Re:What Is ‘Site Reliability Engineering’? by traf68 on Thursday April 20, 2017 @10:47AM (#14157112)

It allows the company to save on dedicated resources in my experience.

A lot of first-class *nix admins in my generation have a problem dealing with dev ideas in system context. In the company I am at now we have gone a step further and allowed dev/mgmt to control ops|prod and reserved system to sidestep the crapulence of this concept.

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