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DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?

OverOps

DevOps or SRE? DevOps and SRE seem like two sides of the same coin. Follow us on Twitter for all the latest and greatest posts from our blog: NEW POST DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You? The Differences Between DevOps and SREs. link] pic.twitter.com/616uW4OQJu.

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Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?

Honeycomb

My first DevOps role was at a startup consulting for other startups. My last company, a data analytics startup, was probably the biggest I’ve worked at (~500 people) where I split my time between “traditional DevOps” (i.e. I’ve spent most of my time at startups or smaller companies. I then moved on (burned out) to internal roles.

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On Becoming a VP of Engineering, Part 1: The Path to VP

Honeycomb

VPs of Engineering often have a lot of influence over both company culture and policy, and the decisions our companies make ripple outside of the companies themselves. The whole tech industry would benefit from more perspectives in this role. However, we have fairly different backgrounds and skill sets.

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A Commitment to Diversity: Reflections on GHC

LaunchDarkly

It seems every week there is an article or blog post decrying the lack of women and people of color in software engineering, or on the other side defending the gap. At LaunchDarkly I have experienced similar intellectual honesty, one of the many facets of our outstanding engineering culture.

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Panel Discussion: Teams, Processes, and Practices in DevOps

LaunchDarkly

Well, so what really has struck me about sort of the modern reality of DevOps and SRE life has been, I’ve gotten to know more of, has been this sort of deep shared responsibility for something that you didn’t make, that you can’t necessarily fix. I do like that the industry seems to be getting better at management.

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The Rise of the Front-End Developer

LaunchDarkly

But as the engineering manager there, I grew a team from zero. A team of me to a team of about somewhere between 20 and 25 software engineers. All focused on trying to level up Indeed’s front end engineering capabilities. The technical project manager role was actually pretty new. Ben Vinegar: Yeah.

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Grown-Up Lean

LeanEssays

He describes “some surprising theories about software engineering”: I discuss these theories in terms of two fundamentally different development styles, the "cathedral" model of most of the commercial world versus the "bazaar" model of the Linux world. If you give software engineers manual work, their first instinct is to automate it.