SRE as She Is Spoke
summary
Argues SRE is a platform role that sits between infrastructure and product software, not just a label; traces origin to 2006 Vogel and 2009 devops, cites Kubernetes as a scope economy Trading Zone, and treats SLOs as a SLO commoning exercise that negotiates incentives. Warns most orgs drop performance before gaining it (the J‑curve of change), cautions against superficial SRE silos, and prefers runtime observability over TDD. Watch if you want concrete models and organizational preconditions for doing SRE well.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Personal introduction
- 4:34The evolution of devops
- 10:22Refining devops definitions
- 14:06The concept of fluency
- 20:04Systems and economies
- 26:36The trap of legitimacy
- 35:09Designing for advantage
