Beyond Uptime: Unpacking the Power of SRE in Modern Tech Stacks

Abstract

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has its origin in efforts to help the IT operations organization prioritize and develop software solutions that would reduce the toil and inefficiencies inherent in traditional operations work. By automating operations using software, engineers can improve dynamic and constantly evolving systems, while engineers in traditional IT organizations tend to manage systems that are static and relatively unchanging. The term SRE was coined by a leader who started by hiring a small number of software engineers to write software to help manage its growing fleet of production systems. Since that time, thousands of SREs specializing in many different technical areas of expertise have been hired, and SRE has evolved into a substantial organization.