January 2020
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
16h 56m
English
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The role of the site reliability engineer (SRE)
The role of the site reliability engineer (SRE) came into the spotlight in 2016 when Google published a book on the subject of Site Reliability Engineering [4]. This book outlined the best practices and strategies that are used internally by Google to run their production systems and has since led to the wide adoption of the role by the majority of companies operating in the SaaS space.
The term was initially coined sometime around 2003 by Ben Treynor, the founder of Google's site reliability team. A site reliability engineer is a software engineer with a strong technical background who also focuses on the operations side of deploying and running production-grade services.
According to the original ...