Is It Important for Engineers to Be Passionate About What They're Doing?
If you're not enjoying what you're doing, why are you doing it? Kind of a question. It's important for us to enjoy it because I'm spending more time with the code that I'm writing. The more empathy that you build towards the business needs, your customers, you're actually putting out a product that has all that built in. Customers will actually enjoy working with that product because the person who's built it is pouring his heart and soul into it. So I think they're very much interrelated.
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Narayanan Raghavan leads the global SRE organization that runs Red Hat managed cloud services including OpenShift Dedicated, Azure Red Hat Openshift, Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS, and Red Hat OpenShift Data Science among others across the three major cloud providers: AWS, GCP & Azure. We start with a high-level discussion about DevOps, SRE & platform engineering, and then we dig into SRE specifics, including what it takes to safely roll out updates across many tens of thousands of OpenShift clusters.
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