News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Ask HN: I'm a SWE without a CS degree. Will online certs ... by solardev on Thursday September 21, 2023 @11:07AM (#37598766)
Can I ask what your day to day looks like? Are you configuring services? Writing code and tests? Like what are the things you do for reliability?

(I've never been in a company big enough to have one of these, so I'm just trying to understand)

Re:Ask HN: I'm a SWE without a CS degree. Will online certs ... by a_vanderbilt on Thursday September 21, 2023 @03:00PM (#37602368)
It's going to vary based on the company you're with but a typical day for me includes reviewing/writing code, attending some meetings for projects, and answering pager duty when something goes boom. Occasional post-mortems and active maintenance of systems. I was up until last week an SRE at a firm maintaining an industrial information system and related services.