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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.
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.
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.