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SRE and DevOps teams overlap a lot, with SRE being a specific implementation of DevOps, more focused on reliability and scalability by applying software enginee
by gtirloni 3y ago
SRE and DevOps teams overlap a lot, with SRE being a specific implementation of DevOps, more focused on reliability and scalability by applying software engineering principles.
Sometimes traditional sysadmins will be labeled as DevOps because they are using some config management tool, but the practices are the same.
The next level is Platform Engineering, which creates a platform that encapsulates all these best practices.
You can have dedicated or distributed DevOps and SRE teams. You can't have distributed Platform team.
- lgkk 3y agoMy latest job title was platform engineer. Honestly it felt like a hack of all trades role. I was doing everything from k8s tf etc deployments observability monitoring to writing backend services running analytical queries and building UIs while managing their entire lifecycle. Really fun, enjoyed the heck out of it because every day I was learning and doing something new and interesting. 11/10 would recommend. Not sure if that’s what platform engineering is generally considered to be.
- gtirloni 3y agoI think that's it but what matters is if your team was exposing a platform that made the hugely complex infrastructure more amenable to developers, while helping people to stay on the golden paths of reliability, monitoring, etc. It also helps the organization to enforce some standards centrally. What happens behind that interface can be chaotic for sure.