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DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering: Concepts, Practices, and Roles

Altexsoft

In the words of Ben Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of engineering who coined the very term SRE , “it’s what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operation function.”. The term DevOps (short for development and operations) was coined in 2009 by Patrick Debois, Belgian IT consultant and Agile practitioner.

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Why a data scientist is not a data engineer

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

One way to know the difference between data scientists and data engineers is to see what happens when they write their own distributed systems. A software engineer with a specialization in writing distributed systems will create one that performs well and is distributed ( but seriously don’t write your own ). Bug tracking.