SRE best practices are disrupting and catalyzing change in the ways organizations approach IT Operations. In this blog we look at 7 ways SRE is bringing this transition. ‍Site Reliability Engineering is a new practice that has been growing in popularity among many businesses. Also known as SRE, the new activity puts a premium on monitoring, tracking bugs, and creating systems and automations that solve the problem in the long term.

Kubernetes makes it easier in certain ways to manage reliability. But incident response teams and SREs must also be prepared to handle the unique reliability challenges that K8s creates.

Wondering what SRE is all about? We will explain what it is, how it works, why it was developed, and how it can help your organization. So what is SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)? SRE is a methodology that fuses software and operations teams, with the goal of producing reliable, resilient, and scalable systems. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) was developed by Google engineer Ben Treynor Sloss in 2003. Google’s goal was to increase the reliability of its sites and services.

In the new world of rapid releases, continuous change, and increasingly high user expectations, more organizations are embracing DevOps. One of the primary drivers for adopting DevOps is speed — particularly the reduction of risk at speed. As DevOps seeks to reduce risk and deliver insight at an increasingly faster pace, new tools have emerged in the monitoring space. But these tools alone will not deliver us into the low-risk world of DevOps — not without new and updated thinking.

How can creating chaos achieve better reliability? Chaos and reliability might seem mutually exclusive, but through the use of Chaos Engineering, SREs can bring about meaningful changes to system resiliency.

Spring is here! We have rain! We have flowers! We have allergies! We also have some of the most exciting Tweets, content, and events happening in the SRE and resilience engineering community this month.

Keeping digital services reliable is more important than ever. When something goes wrong in production, on-call teams face significant pressure to identify and resolve the incident quickly – in order to keep customers happy. But it can be difficult to get the right signals to the right person in a timely fashion.

‍Resilience in Action is a podcast about all things resilience, from SRE to software engineering, to how it affects our personal lives, and more. Resilience in Action is hosted by Kurt Andersen. Kurt is a practitioner and an active thought leader in the SRE community. He speaks at major DevOps & SRE conferences and publishes his work through O'Reilly in quintessential SRE books such as Seeking SRE, What is SRE?, and 97 Things Every SRE Should Know.

Site Reliability Engineers are expected to know everything that’s happening, all of the time. That’s a lot of things! To help you sift through the noise, we’ve developed a feature that lets you find accurate data about your organization on-demand. You can do this by sending custom-designed commands to FireHydrant directly from your integrated Slack account.

SREs may have better long-term job prospects, but DevOps might be an easier career to pursue.