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

Altexsoft

It originated in the early 2000s at Google to ensure the health of a large, complex system serving over 100 billion requests per day. 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.”.

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The Cloud Cost-Conscious Conundrum

taos

Frankly, I don’t know a single CIO, CTO or VP of Engineering or Operations that would disagree with me. We can also consider an example of application metrics and logging. Public cloud is not cheaper! There, I said it! Public cloud is not something that should be considered for purely cost savings.

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