SRE in the Third Age
summary
Frame: SRE evolves from a Google-only practice to a public discipline and now to a diffuse skill set where most engineers must carry SRE mindset. Small companies (often ~50 engineers or fewer) rarely justify dedicated teams; SoundCloud shifts into a production‑engineering model, running Kubernetes, managing cloud‑native infra, and keeping a rigorous postmortem process to drive cross‑functional fixes — that work reduces incidents. Observability vendors (for example Grafana as metrics‑and‑dashboards service) absorb much operational toil.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:30First Age of SRE
- 5:28Second Age of SRE
- 10:31Third Age predictions
- 16:56SRE in small companies
- 20:54Exceptions and SRE teams
- 22:41Unsolved SRE problems
- 24:06Q&A
