SRE Unpacked: How Google’s Vision Changed DevOps Forever
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is a discipline that’s grown rapidly over the past two decades, originally pioneered by Google to ensure large-scale systems could operate efficiently and reliably. As the field evolved, it has seen an integration with DevOps, creating a hybrid model focused on both cultural collaboration and engineering-driven reliability. In this post, we’ll dive into the evolution of SRE, from its Google roots to the current DevOps-SRE hybrid, and explore the key differences between these two approaches. 1. The Birth of Google SRE (2003) SRE was born at Google in 2003 when Ben Treynor and his team were tasked with solving scalability and reliability issues that come with managing massive infrastructures. Back then, Google’s systems were growing rapidly, and the traditional IT operations models were no longer sufficient. Google needed to address the reliability of its growing platform while also keeping up with the pace of innovation. The core idea behind SRE is tha...
