{"id":14197,"date":"2021-09-01T23:13:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T17:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/?p=14197"},"modified":"2022-10-06T16:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T11:17:47","slug":"what-is-site-reliability-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/cloud\/what-is-site-reliability-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Site Realiability engineering (SRE)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Site Reliability Engineering<\/strong>&nbsp;is a software engineering approach to IT operations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Basically a set of principles and practices that collaborate the aspect of software engineering and then the work left is just to apply them to the operational problems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let&#8217;s focus update on what are the key skills and what we need to work on to become a forthcoming SRE&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coding Proficiency&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though they are not going to work as a developer, working as an&nbsp;<strong>SRE<\/strong>&nbsp;requires the knowledge of languages such as python, Java and&nbsp;GoLang. Additionally, knowledge of other languages such as JavaScript and.net is one of the preferred requirements.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s because the ones with proficiency in languages are more likely to understand what improvement can be done for a great reliability result.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Love of Change&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Releasing new applications consistently is a requirement to remain competitive. A good SRE is always comfortable indulging in changes if required.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detective skills&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You must have detective skills so that you are able to investigate immediately if any performance issues.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Automation Mastery&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mastery in automation means that you have knowledge about the automation tools that are used to make the work more efficient.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This helps to eliminate the manual work which saves the time and energy of the working professionals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Business Analysis&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SREs are highly responsible for&nbsp;analysing&nbsp;availability, mean time failures and the time that it&#8217;s going to take to get repaired.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Comprehensive Tech Skills&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tech skills are one of the essential requirements to become a site reliability engineer.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This includes the knowledge of operating systems, networks,&nbsp;virtualisation&nbsp;acumen and CI\/CD pipeline tools.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How Google came up with Site Reliability Engineering\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"section\" data-elementor-id=\"33253\" class=\"elementor elementor-33253\" data-elementor-post-type=\"elementor_library\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f27ef0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1f27ef0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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class=\"elementor-button-text\">Start Today !<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though Google earned much popularity by the year 2000. But in 2003 as soon as Benjamin Treynor Sloss joined Google, the introduction of&nbsp;<strong>SRE<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>in Google<\/strong>&nbsp;made it the most popular search engine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As one of his first tasks, he was asked to run a production team of seven engineers. He previously had a good experience as a software engineer. Surabhi&nbsp;maida&nbsp;commendable strategy to manage the group the way he wanted it to work, keeping himself at the position of a&nbsp;<strong>Site Reliability Engineer.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SRE<\/strong>&nbsp;ensures that the services that Google provides(may it be internally or externally) have solidity, sureness and a fleet improvement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SRE&nbsp;<\/strong>plays a crucial role in monitoring the capacity and performance of the system.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SRE vs Platform Engineering&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work of a&nbsp;<strong>platform engineer<\/strong>&nbsp;is to operate a common platform for the whole technical team by building internal workflows and tools.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their main purpose is to provide a smoothed experience of development and deployment to every employee involved.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A platform engineer is mainly required to manage the micro services, container orchestration and similar other roles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The responsibility of a&nbsp;<strong>platform engineer<\/strong>&nbsp;should never be compared by the&nbsp;Devops&nbsp;team. Though they are similar in some ways but they differ in others.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NOW, talking about the confusion that people mostly have for&nbsp;<strong>&nbsp;SRE<\/strong>&nbsp;playing the same roles platform engineers do.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, these are two different roles.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<strong>Site Reliability Engineer<\/strong>&nbsp;is responsible to deliver infrastructure to make the applications highly reliable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whereas, the role of a platform engineer is to deliver the infrastructure to increase the growth rate of application.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And these two roles collaborate to unlock the productivity of the application development team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Conclusion&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So now you must have understood what&nbsp;<strong>SRE<\/strong>&nbsp;is.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When you ask a software engineer to design an operational team, the way he will complete the task will be the one that&nbsp;<strong>SREs<\/strong>&nbsp;do.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope the concept of&nbsp;<strong>SRE with Google<\/strong>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;rowl&nbsp;of&nbsp;<strong>Platform Engineering<\/strong>&nbsp;together with&nbsp;<strong>SRE<\/strong>&nbsp;is clear to you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Site Reliability Engineering&nbsp;is a software engineering approach to IT operations.&nbsp; Basically a set of principles and practices that collaborate the aspect of software engineering and then the work left is just to apply them to the operational problems.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s focus update on what are the key skills and what we need to work on to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-14197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","tag-sre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14197"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33588,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197\/revisions\/33588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ismiletechnologies.com\/en_us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}