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Having been at a finance firm trying to implement SRE without SRO, and without staffing either, I do find the story a bit entertaining. That is - we were manda
by steveBK123 4y ago
Having been at a finance firm trying to implement SRE without SRO, and without staffing either, I do find the story a bit entertaining.
That is - we were mandated to implement all the SRE tooling on top of our apps, with like 1 guy owning the SRE infra, but with no one looking at the charts proactively.
The idea was sold to dev teams that it was something like a black box recorder for the on-call rotation to check first when you got called in the middle of the night/weekend.
In reality it turned into CTO reporting metrics of whether SLOs were being met, lol.
Constantly feel like other industries read like 1/4 of a book about how FAANG does stuff and then adopts the laziest worst implementation of the part they skimmed.
- nerdponx 4y ago> Constantly feel like other industries read like 1/4 of a book about how FAANG does stuff and then adopts the laziest worst implementation of the part they skimmed. I think this is less wrong than you think it is. In the P&C insurance industry, I saw a handful of initiatives that seemed like they were started because a senior manager read about something that sounded cool and high-tech in an industry publication, and/or heard it in a sales pitch from a Microsoft rep, without actually checking to see if it was feasible or even useful.