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It's baffling to see a majority of the tech industry adopt the job title that a giant advertising company invented as some sort of panacea, because they wrote a
by deeblering4 5y ago
It's baffling to see a majority of the tech industry adopt the job title that a giant advertising company invented as some sort of panacea, because they wrote a book.
SRE has some good ideas in principal. But in practice, unless you are Google, it often leads to over-engineering.
- 0xbadcafebee 5y agoIt's an industry specialization with no formal training. You can get a degree in computer science. You can't get a degree in running large-scale computer systems. Plumbers have better training than we do. Garbage men have better training than we do. If any organization is bold enough to write a book on it, that book becomes the de-facto standard. (it helps that it's 10000% easier than buying and reading a million disparate ISO standards on Information Technology)
- deeblering4 5y agoThats sort of my point. The book outlining the practices used at a company with 130k employees doesn’t translate directly to a company with 100 employees, and yet here we are.
- rswail 5y agoWhat I get from the SRE book is an approach, or even, god help us, a pattern for how to do operations. So yes, it doesn't translate from 130K to 100 people, but the concepts do.