it would take 12 years of uninterrupted service to be able to take a 1 hour outage and still be at five nines.| constructolution
People have asked me, “Are we doing DevOps, or are we doing SRE?” I’ve also heard (and this is worse): “We’re an SRE team – we don’t do DevOps.” These distinctions don’t make sense, because SRE and DevOps aren’t actually different things. SRE is DevOps. To be more precise, SRE is a specific implementation of […]| constructolution
Wearing the pager. It’s a fact of life for many of us ops folks. I’ve taken part in many a discussion from a management perspective about how oncall duty should be compensated. When the people doing the talking are pointy-haired-manager types who haven’t done oncall themselves, their starting position is often similar to the “per […]| constructolution
When HP announced their cloud was going GA, lots of the coverage said that the cloud came with a 99.95% SLA. While that is technically accurate, it is also very misleading. People may assume (and e…| constructolution