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5 Tips If You’re the First SRE Hire
Site reliability engineers (SREs) have a considerable set of tasks to juggle no matter where they work or how long their company has had an SRE practice. But if you’re the very first one to join an organization—as many SREs are these days, given that the trend is trickling down into smaller and smaller companies—you […]
Jun 13, 2022 · 3 minAll articles by Quentin Rousseau
Showing 1–3The Pros and Cons of Embedded SREs
To embed or not to embed: That is the question. At least, that’s one of the questions that companies have to answer as they decide how to implement site reliability engineering. They can either embed SREs into existing teams, or they can build a new, separate team. Both approaches have their pros and cons. The […]
Top Nine Skills for SREs to Master
It’s easy to talk at a high level about what site reliability engineers do: They ensure that IT systems achieve availability and performance requirements. But which skills, exactly, do SREs need to do to perform their jobs? That’s a more complicated question. To answer, let’s look at the top nine site reliability engineer skills that […]