a modern operations approach made popular by Google.
— DevOps for the Modern Enterprise, Mirco Hering
site reliability engineering
3 of our books and 1 talk define this term — and their definitions are worth reading side by side.
SRE (site reliability engineering) adopts software engineering principles and practices and applies them to infrastructure and operations problems. The main goal is to create highly reliable and scalable software systems.
— Investments Unlimited, in “Chapter 13”, Helen Beal, Bill Bensing, Jason Cox, Michael Edenzon, Tapabrata Pal, Caleb Queern, John Rzeszotarski, Andres Vega, and John Willis
Site Reliability Engineering is an approach to the operation and improvement of software applications pioneered by Google
— Team Topologies, in “Chapter 4: Static Team Topologies”, Matthew Skelton and Manuel Pais
Site reliability engineering is Google's take to delivering value to customers. It talks about building end-to-end reliability at site. Site reliability engineering is more a post-production set of processes and activities for systems at scale, and it operates on the principles of prevent, recover, and optimize
— Meenal Meenaakshi · DevOps SRE or ITIL – Know Before You Leap!, US 2021 · at 12:58
See also blameless postmortem · concept of error budgets · graceful degradation · incident · mean time to discovery (MTTD) · mean time to recovery (MTTR)
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