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As an SRE for 9 years: that’s nowhere near my experience. Depending on the period, the majority of my typing is either C++ or documentation. And the majority of
by lrem 3y ago
As an SRE for 9 years: that’s nowhere near my experience. Depending on the period, the majority of my typing is either C++ or documentation. And the majority of impact is consulting on designing complex systems.
- tayo42 3y agoSo youre a swe who does maintenence work... Every sre job is going to quiz you on stuff like terraform knowledge, and then expect run their ci tools and manage aws. When was the last time you changed jobs?
- lrem 3y ago9 years ago. Got hired as a software engineer with a mission to engineer reliability into the systems. The definition of SRE.
- dilyevsky 3y agoThat’s because you work at google. What tp described is sre experience at every other shop out there
- ahoka 3y agoThis just means everyone else just got it wrong.
- itsautomatisch 3y agoThe market dictates what things mean, whether or not we agree with it. Is DevOps a position, a philosophy, a framework? According to the job market it can be any of things. In my experience interviewing for and working in SRE roles, most people are doing exactly what other people are saying in this discussion. A lot of SRE job descriptions are looking for people who do IaC to manage their cloud, handle CICD pipelines, and set up monitoring and alerting, all of which is ultimately a bunch of YAML (or JSON) with a bit of Terraform and Bash or Python. Anyways, the point is it doesn't matter who is "right" or "wrong" and really we should be treating this role what it's being hired for, and as such education and training should reflect that.
- dilyevsky 3y agoOr that everyone else doesn’t have google’s unique technology and scale challenges that require anything beyond rebranded sysadmins. You decide