Category: Architecture

When DevOps was coined around 2009, its purpose was to break down silos between development and IT operations. As Benjamin Treynor Sloss, designer of Google’s SRE program, puts it: “SRE is what happens when you ask a software engineer to design and run operations.”

He heads three horizontal SRE teams in Munich and is reasonable for maintain Google’s SRE Engagement Model, that collection of policies and principles around SRE and developer collaboration.

It takes time to build up that deep understanding of the services that team is responsible for.”

The Google SRE team is only able to work on certain projects — and the existence of an on-call team is not seen as a justification.

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