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They might prefer that, but it's misleading. "SRE" is closely associated with Google's approach, where SREs are supposed to spend the majority of their time wri
by sweeneyrod 7y ago
They might prefer that, but it's misleading. "SRE" is closely associated with Google's approach, where SREs are supposed to spend the majority of their time writing high quality code. If you aren't doing that, you shouldn't call yourself an SRE.
- geofft 7y agoIs there a good term for SRE-as-the-Google-inspired-philosophy to distinguish it from SRE-as-the-job-title? I'm trying to find a word that conveys e.g. "We ought to be measuring SLOs and defining error budgets" and not e.g. "We need to make sure the people we wake up at night are sysadmins who can code well and not just coders". (In fairness, I think Google brought this on themselves by reusing SRE as both the job title and the philosophy.)
- jldugger 7y agoI'm told that internally, SRE at google is divided into SRE-SW and SRE-OPS. At least, thats what the recruiter told me when setting up the interview panel.