> And that move to microservices—in combination with cloud—unleashes a whole new level of autonomy and empowerment for developers who, often coming from a more

> And that move to microservices—in combination with cloud—unleashes a whole new level of autonomy and empowerment for developers who, often coming from a more restrictive ops-controlled environment on prem, introduce all sorts of new programming languages, compute platforms, databases, and other technologies. You need standards, without that SRE is pointless. Everything needs a standard method of monitoring. As an e.g. - stick to Java/Spring Boot, MariaDB and K8S. That will generally cover 85% of your use cases. The automation and advantage of SRE is derived through standards and familiarity with the tool chain.