Building SRE teams
Google defined the principles of SRE by applying the concepts of software engineering to system operations. Google was implementing these principles even before the term DevOps was coined. They developed best practices over a period of time and essentially considered SRE as their secret sauce for efficient running of their products. With the advent of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google became more vocal about the SRE principles and their relevance for the success of their customers that deal with maintaining, running, and operating distributed systems on GCP.
Given SRE is a prescriptive way of doing DevOps, more and more organizations (and this also includes non-GCP customers) are currently tending toward implementing the principles of SRE in a quest to find a balance between service reliability and development velocity. Such organizations will face the following challenges:
- How do you staff an SRE team?
- How do you implement or run an SRE team? ...
