I'm curious what's your current solution to the especially the latter part there what are our applications and where are they deployed like how do you track that without a comprehensive system like a developer portal. At the moment it's more what can I say urban myths and legend and stories shared from one generation of sre to the next, no kidding. A number of things we're mainly on Google cloud so we rely a lot on the good stuff that people at Google provides through the console and the various GCP APIs as well as our CDso we can get a pretty rough idea of what we have.
Thomas Khalil, Head of Platform and SRE at Trivago, describes how the teams reporting into him are structured, the tactics they’re using to increase awareness of their work, and how they demonstrate their impact.
Discussion points:
- (1:17) The pillars of the Central Platform organization
- (2:18) The organization’s focus on time to market and efficiency
- (3:09) The differences in developer experience between teams
- (4:37) Deciding whether to consolidate services
- (5:57) How platform, developer experience, observability, and SRE teams interact
- (8:40) How these problems were being tackled previously
- (10:09) A failed attempt at rolling out Backstage
- (13:48) How SRE squads are organized
- (15:39) How to motivate platform teams
- (17:23) Demonstrating the impact of the organization
- (18:42) How the data is collected
- (22:32) How they’re increasing awareness for their work
- (23:42) The DevEx pillar
- (25:46) How the DevEx roadshow will work
- (27:56) How DORA metrics fit into their measurement program
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