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   by stvvvv 8mo ago

   well-run ops requires knowing the business. It's not enough to know "This rpc is failing 100%", but also what the impact on the customer is, and how important to the business it is. Mature SRE teams get involved with the deve
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   by stvvvv 8mo ago

   Right, unfortunately too many people re-brand their ops team as SREs and expect things to be different.
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   by stvvvv 8mo ago

   Good SREs at a senior level do. They are familiar with the product, and the customers and the business requirements. Without that it's impossible to correctly prioritise your work.
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   by stvvvv 8mo ago

   Former sysadmin and I've been an SRE for >15 years now. They are very different. If your SREs are spending much of their time chasing fires, they are doing it wrong.
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   by stvvvv 5y ago

   Google Proprietary code on AWS: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introd... https://cloud.google.com/anthos/clusters/docs/aws/concepts/a... etc.
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   by stvvvv 5y ago

   It's also worth noting that Borgmon readability included an awful lot of "how not to shoot yourself in the foot in strange and unexpected ways". That required someone who had shown they knew of those strange and unexpected wa