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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. Whether network, storage or compute; public clouds offer a considerable amount of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) components which can replace an entire traditional data center. Public cloud is not cheaper!

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