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Yes, I get that. However there are SREs and DevOps engineers that are seemingly required for cloud solutions; and they cost more than sysadmins. So, someone i

• r3trohack3r 1y ago
  SREs have nothing to do with cloud solutions. You may have the wrong mental model here. The profession grew out of observations made in catastrophic failures like Chernobyl. They primarily focus on organization structures, communication structures, and responding to failures. At an engineering level they focus on meta stability - decoupling local failure from overall system stability to prevent local failures from cascading to catastrophic failures - and automated tooling to loop the right engineers into ongoing incidents. The skill set is a side effect of operating at scale, where even brief catastrophic failures can result in hundreds of millions of dollars of losses; directly in revenue and indirectly to reputation.
  • jeremyjh 1y ago
    That's what it meant 8 years ago. Now SRE is just a synonym for "devops" which now is a synonym for "sysadmin" in most companies. You won't have both devops and SREs in most orgs, and you won't have any devops doing dev work.
    • r3trohack3r 1y ago
      If you’re fighting snake oil and buzzwords, you gripe isn’t with the cloud. You can “buzzword” yourself into job security just as easily on a VM.