Site Reliability Engineering

In the dynamic world of online services, the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE) has risen as a pivotal discipline, ensuring that large-scale systems maintain their performance and reliability. Bridging the gap between development and operations, SRE is a set of principles and practices that aims to create scalable and highly reliable software systems.

Site Reliability Engineering in Today’s World

Site reliability engineering is an engineering discipline devoted to maintaining and improving the reliability, durability, and performance of large-scale web services. Originating from the complex operational challenges faced by large internet companies, SRE incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to infrastructure and operations problems. The main goal is to create automated solutions for operational aspects such as on-call monitoring, performance tuning, incident response, and capacity planning.

Four DevOps Trends for 2020

Last year, I put together a few thoughts on what I saw as the emerging DevOps trends for 2019. As we enter a new year and decade, I thought it might be useful to do the same for 2020. A common theme in this year’s trends concerns the way in which firms are dealing with delivering services at scale in the cloud, which I think could be a grand trend for the decade – one I wanted to highlight from the offset – but for now, here are four trends for the year ahead.  

1. Site Reliability Engineering

As more and more companies leverage the cloud to host their services, how do they manage large user bases around the globe without a large 24x7 Operations team? Embracing failure and observing standard setters such as Google, Netflix, and Spotify, firms are looking to site reliability engineering (SRE) for the answers.