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As I understand it (from friends who were SREs in the 2010s) the really clever bit was that projects basically had a budget for "how much SRE attention your dep
by eichin 3y ago
As I understand it (from friends who were SREs in the 2010s) the really clever bit was that projects basically had a budget for "how much SRE attention your deployment needed" - so there was payoff for getting more deployment details right the first time, and structural pushback for just throwing things over the wall. Sounded like an interesting way to connect up the levers...
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- poisonta 3y agoIt seems that there may be issues with accountability within their development teams. The reliability of Google Cloud is in question, as encountering 500 errors appears to be a frequent problem. It has been observed that if one persists in retrying a request, it may eventually succeed. This suggests that their teams may have an error budget and might not take action until the issue is flagged by their Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team.