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Re:The Evolution of SRE at Google by scarface_74 on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:46PM (#42589318)
I agree. I haven’t run into a “hard problem” in my career

By hard problem I mean technically at the top 5% of a problems in the industry that can’t be solved by throwing money at a SaaS or using a cloud provider.

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Re:The Evolution of SRE at Google by everfrustrated on Friday January 03, 2025 @05:57PM (#42590374)
Most companies are really just crud apps. Very few are doing anything technically innovative. And that's just fine.

I wonder how much of the early Google technical innovation was more a product of open source tech/distributed systems being a lot more immature (I'm particularly thinking databases) 25 years ago.

Ultimately all companies get bloated and loose their way. It shouldn't be a suprise this has happened to Google - 25 years on they are mega corp and idling. Probably for the best as it allows innovators a chance to compete.

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