Google SRE Prodcast

SRE Philosophy with Jennifer Mace (Macey)

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Apr 5, 2022
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SRE as Engineering Discipline

  • SRE is an engineering discipline focusing on keeping services reliably up and running.
  • It prioritizes stability over delivering new features but remains an engineering role, not just operations.
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Defining Reliability in SRE

  • Engineering reliability means understanding and serving what users consider 'broken'.
  • It's about asking developers what parts of the service matter most for reliability.
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Balancing Reliability and Risk

  • SREs never aim for 100% reliability but instead balance reliability with an acceptable error budget.
  • Higher reliability demands drastically more resources and less operational risk tolerance.
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