I’m SRE and You Can Too!—A Fine Manual...
summary
Recommendation: build a small, funded SRE core that proves value with tooling and training, not org fiat. Key moves: implement CI/CD and a deploy/monitor pipeline, use envoy and proxy layers to integrate legacy systems, deploy a logs proxy to convert unstructured logs to protobufs (captures ~80% usable fields up front), run weekly read-the-fine-manual sessions for cross-training, keep an on-call rotation, and treat the 1-in-10 SRE heuristic as a starting point (expect 1-in-8 to 1-in-5 until toil drops).
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 11:27Reliability
- 13:03Production Readiness Reviews
- 40:26Large Relational Databases
- 41:45Envoy
- 43:41What Do Regulators Love about Sree
- 44:13Budgets and Risk Calculations
- 44:35Quantified Risk Matrix
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