How Google SRE and Developers Work Together

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Google SRE describes a concrete engagement model: SRE is a separate org funded by pay by headcount, not automatic support, and uses baseline/assisted/full support tiers (office hours, consulting, incident escalation, or full on‑call). It treats reliability as SLO-driven tradeoffs, prefers automation over toil, and pushes shift-left design work early. Notable scale: the codebase cited as 2 billion+ lines of code. Success metrics are explicit SLOs, shared roadmaps, and periodic reallocation of SRE headcount when impact falls short.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 2:11How to run a planet-scale system?
3. 8:56The SRE engagement model
4. 21:46Engagement types
5. 31:33Outro

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