alt Hacker NewsSRE at google works closely with devs to architect and build systems together. Most of them are on the SWE ladder, are able to bug fix and scale directly. They're not just ops.
The point of SRE is to have a team dedicated to scaling/resilience to balance the tension between product pushing to ship features.
If SRE cannot throttle the release cadence or fix bugs or change architecture in binaries, it's not really SRE.
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rubiquity • today at 4:21 PM
Nice I started a timer for how quickly a "well actually, SRE at google" would show up and you did not fail to deliver.
> The point of SRE is to have a team dedicated to scaling/resilience to balance the tension between product pushing to ship features.
Sounds like a cultural issue. Google should look into that.
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When I worked at Google SREs only handled legacy products that were maintained but not in active development. SRE was its own vertical separate from SWE and they would only take on maintenance of a new service or product if SWE could prove to them it was stable.