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What is site reliability engineering?

What is site reliability engineering?

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What is site reliability engineering?

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- The fifth and last practice area of DevOps is site reliability engineering. - Engineering is the application of theoretical principles to solve real world problems, and in engineering, reliability describes the ability of a system to perform its intended function correctly and consistently when it's expected to. - And in IT this includes availability, performance, security, and all the other factors that allow your service to actually deliver its capability to users. - SRE isn't just for websites, but the term got coined at Google for engineers focused on the reliability of their website and the term stuck. - Yeah, Google Engineers published a book called Site Reliability Engineering that's also available online for free that you can use to learn more about their perspective on it. We've actually linked to it in the course handout. - [Instructor 1] You can think of SRE as the actual operations part of DevOps. Infrastructure as code lets us use software to define our system…

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