From my experience, the $500 Intel NUC in my basement has greater reliability than nearly every single company which calls their IT departments "SREs" now. Pro

From my experience, the $500 Intel NUC in my basement has greater reliability than nearly every single company which calls their IT departments "SREs" now. Probably 99% of the SRE problems I've seen are not IT problems. They're usually bugs or shortcomings in code some engineer deployed.