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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by bigbuppo on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:30AM (#50366025)
SREs became a thing because management realized the DevOps mindset of making your programmers DBAs and sys admins wasn't really working but management were too ashamed to admit they were wrong so they invented a new term.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by poopingatwork on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:12AM (#50366697)
SREs were invented because if you weren't scaling up and 'moving fast', you weren't serious.

And to scale up meant moving all our shit into the cloud and asking devs to take on all the roles that were removed in the move.

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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by skipkey on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:25AM (#50366921)
Well, to be fair, having separate DBAs and sysadmins wasn’t working either.
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Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt by bigbuppo on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @06:01PM (#50372658)
Mainly because they kept telling the developers "No". SREs just do that at scale.
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