Those rules and work practices help us to maintain our focus on engineering work, as opposed to operations work. Their remaining time should be spent using their coding skills on project work.
In practice, this is accomplished by monitoring the amount of operational work being done by SREs, and redirecting excess operational work to the product development teams: reassigning bugs and tickets to development managers, [re]integrating developers into on-call pager rotations, and so on.
When they are focused on operations work, on average, SREs should receive a maximum of two events per 8—hour on-call shift. This target volume gives the on-call engineer enough time to handle the event accurately and quickly, clean up and restore normal service, and then conduct a postmortem.
Conversely, if on-call SREs consistently receive fewer than one event per shift, keeping them on point is a waste of their time. Postmortems should be written for all significant incidents, regardless of whether or not they paged; postmortems that did not trigger a page are even more valuable, as they likely point to clear monitoring gaps.
This investigation should establish what happened in detail, find all root causes of the event, and assign actions to correct the problem or improve how it is addressed next time. Google operates under a blame-free postmortem culture , with the goal of exposing faults and applying engineering to fix these faults, rather than avoiding or minimizing them. Product development and SRE teams can enjoy a productive working relationship by eliminating the structural conflict in their respective goals.
The structural conflict is between pace of innovation and product stability, and as described earlier, this conflict often is expressed indirectly. In SRE we bring this conflict to the fore, and then resolve it with the introduction of an error budget. There are many other systems in the path between user and service their laptop, their home WiFi, their ISP, the power grid… and those systems collectively are far less than Thus, the marginal difference between Once that target is established, the error budget is one minus the availability target.
That permitted 0. So how do we want to spend the error budget? The development team wants to launch features and attract new users. Ideally, we would spend all of our error budget taking risks with things we launch in order to launch them quickly. This basic premise describes the whole model of error budgets. The use of an error budget resolves the structural conflict of incentives between development and SRE.
This change makes all the difference. An outage is no longer a "bad" thing—it is an expected part of the process of innovation, and an occurrence that both development and SRE teams manage rather than fear.
As such, monitoring strategy should be constructed thoughtfully. A classic and common approach to monitoring is to watch for a specific value or condition, and then to trigger an email alert when that value is exceeded or that condition occurs. However, this type of email alerting is not an effective solution: a system that requires a human to read an email and decide whether or not some type of action needs to be taken in response is fundamentally flawed.
Monitoring should never require a human to interpret any part of the alerting domain. Instead, software should do the interpreting, and humans should be notified only when they need to take action. The most relevant metric in evaluating the effectiveness of emergency response is how quickly the response team can bring the system back to health—that is, the MTTR. Humans add latency.
Even if a given system experiences more actual failures, a system that can avoid emergencies that require human intervention will have higher availability than a system that requires hands-on intervention.
Getting software into production reduces the time to deliver software, enhances delivery speed, and allows businesses to start more quickly and on time. Software problems can be fixed promptly and reliably by an experienced developer. A qualified IT organization can easily keep development projects running with developers familiar with the system, and IT supports them to deliver software in the shortest possible time.
The ability to build and deploy a new product or re-create an existing product within hours of starting a project is a significant advantage of using DevOps, DevSecOps, or SRE to deliver software. It allows a developer to focus on building and developing the product, using a new team to make it production-ready, and releasing the new product to end-users quickly.
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A structure Ive seen is companies would have an Engineering org and a Product org. Product is the bridge between Engineers and Customers, Sales and the business. Nov 10, 5 1. They all program in some capacity. SWE build software Gmail, Office, you get it , SE use programming to create tests and figure out long term stability for endpoints and users, SRE program infrastructure and are concerned with scaling. This is a very very high level overview. More DevOps resources.
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