Re:How They SRE
by justapassenger on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @12:31AM
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Small shops shouldn’t use SRE practices, that’s for sure. At small scale your infra is like a house with a couple of pets then - hand managed. But once you reach scale, you run a huge farm with a thousands of cattle. They require different approach, not only because of the cost (too many people would be needed), but also of the requirements (try to change anything, when you have that many people involved).
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> Small shops shouldn’t use SRE practices
Hard disagree.
Properly architecting software, setting reasonable SLAs/SLOs and trying to achieve them/doing postmortems when not, reducing toil, proper monitoring etc are good practices for any company that serves customers. Spend (both time and effort) relative to your company size and resources and it'll serve you well.
(Disclaimer: Google SRE, opinions are my own)
Re:How They SRE
by sombremesa on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @01:58AM
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Yep. As an ex-Amazonian who just joined a small startup, you can say this keeps me up at night in more ways than one.
Not in the least because we've apparently already made agreements with 2-person SaaS companies with no consideration to SLAs whatsoever.
Re:How They SRE
by ocdtrekkie on Tuesday February 16, 2021 @01:50AM
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True, but I think a lot less businesses should be operated as large farms.