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🥊 🚀 DevOps vs. SRE: The Ultimate Face-Off! Are you Team DevOps or Team SRE? 🤔 It's like choosing between coffee and tea—both essential, yet distinct in their own ways! ☕️🍵 🔍 SRE (Site Reliability Engineering): Think of SREs as the superheroes ensuring your systems are always up and running, kind of like Batman—always vigilant, always ready. 🦇 🔧 DevOps: These engineers blend development and operations seamlessly. Imagine them as the Avengers, uniting different superpowers for a common goal! 💥 Want to dive deeper into this epic showdown? 🥋 Check out our latest article where we break down the roles, responsibilities, and key differences between SRE and DevOps engineers: https://lnkd.in/gVVTKA4D #DevOps #SRE #SoftwareEngineering #DevOpscommunity

🚀 Building an SRE Team from the Ground Up 🚀 Excited to kick off your journey as an SRE Manager! 🎉 Start small but with a clear focus on building a strong, resilient, and innovative team. 🌟 Here’s my approach: 1️⃣ Understand the Business Needs: Align with stakeholders to identify key priorities and pain points. Example: Conduct regular meetings with product and development teams to understand their challenges and align on reliability goals. 2️⃣ Hire Thoughtfully: Start with a few skilled engineers who are passionate about reliability and automation. Example: Focus on hiring candidates who have experience in cloud infrastructure, monitoring, and automation tools like Terraform and Prometheus. 3️⃣ Cultivate a Growth Mindset: Foster a culture of continuous learning, collaboration, and innovation. Example: Implement "lunch and learn" sessions, where team members share their knowledge on the latest tools and best practices. 4️⃣ Build Scalable Processes: Develop robust processes that grow with the team and the business. Example: Start with a simple incident management process and evolve it as the team and systems mature. Step by step, we’re building a foundation for success! 💪 #SRE #TeamBuilding #Leadership #GrowthMindset #DevOps #EngineeringExcellence

#QuickDevOpsSchool #SRE # 1. SRE ******** Are you looking to crack an SRE position: To prepare for an SRE interview, please ensure you can answer the following questions. These cover key areas and will help you clear most of the interview: 1. What are the seven principles of Google SRE? 2. Can you explain the differences between SLA, SLO, and SLI? 3. How do you write SLOs? Can you provide a specific scenario? 4. What are the key incident management metrics like MTTD, MTTA, MTTR, and how do they differ? 5. Can you provide an example of a P1 incident you handled and describe how you managed it? 6. How would you build an observability platform? What are the key components? 7. How do you conduct a blameless postmortem? 8 . What tools do you use to monitor metrics, logs, and traces? 9. Can you explain the differences between logs, metrics, and traces, and how you use each for infrastructure and application monitoring? 10. How do you handle downtime of infrastructure or applications? Can you provide a scenario? 11. What are the main differences between SRE and DevOps? 12. How do you handle application-side issues? 13. How do you manage infrastructure latency or failure issues? 14. Which AWS/Azure/GCP services do you use for logs, metrics, and traces, and why might you choose them over open-source alternatives? 15. What is OpenTelemetry, and why are so many companies adopting it nowadays? 16 How do you implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliability and efficiency? 17 . What strategies do you use for capacity planning and performance tuning? 18. How do you approach automation in SRE to improve operational efficiency? 19. Can you describe your experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform? 20 . Can you describe a time when you improved a system's scalability and performance? 21. How do you ensure security and compliance in your SRE practices? 22. What are your methods for disaster recovery and high-availability planning? 23. How do you maintain and improve system reliability and uptime? 24. What is your approach to continuous monitoring and proactive issue resolution? 25. How do you handle on-call rotations and manage alert fatigue? These questions cover various topics relevant to SRE roles and will help you be well-prepared for your interview.

As a DevOps, SRE, or Platform engineer, it's crucial to distinguish between skills and expertise. Skills are technical abilities—like scripting, building CI/CD pipelines, or using IaC for AWS. Expertise is applying those skills to drive business outcomes, such as faster delivery, cost savings, or improved system reliability. It’s not just about mastering tools but understanding how to leverage them for real impact #devops #sre #platform #system

Why I Ask This Question in Every SRE/DevOps Interview 🚀 "How would you build 3000+ cloud images at once, the DevOps way?" This question: 1. Evaluates Technical Expertise It challenges candidates to think about large-scale architecture and automation. I’m looking for insights into their approach using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or custom scripts to manage extensive operations efficiently. 2. Tests Problem-Solving Skills The question requires candidates to design a clear, scalable plan, showcasing their problem-solving abilities and understanding of cloud infrastructure. How do they optimize resources, reduce costs, and ensure rapid deployment? 3. Assesses Cloud Proficiency It gauges their knowledge of cloud services (AWS, GCP) and their ability to utilize tools like Packer for image creation and Jenkins for CI/CD. It’s a window into their cloud-savvy mindset. 4. Promotes Best Practices This question opens up discussions on Infrastructure as Code (IaC), security, and compliance. How do they ensure consistent, secure, and policy-compliant image creation at scale? 5. Evaluates Communication and Thought Process I want to see how well they can articulate their strategies and workflows, indicating their collaborative spirit. Their decision-making process in selecting and justifying tools and methodologies is crucial. --- If you liked this post: 🔔 Subscribe to Free SRE/DevOps Newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gTsAr7Jg #SRE #DevOps #ReliabilityEngineering #SoftwareSystemEngineering

To all the founders in my network building the next big thing; Even if you can't afford to hire a dedicated DevOps Engineer, adopting a DevOps culture is an excellent way to reduce your time to market. Faster engineering feedback loops, reduced defect rates, and optimized cloud spend are all results of adopting DevOps practices. Sometimes you just need someone with the expertise to identify a successful path forward. Have your Engineering Leaders get in touch with me on LinkedIn and we'll talk shop to identify some high-impact DevOps projects that can empower your long term success!

The difference between DevOps Engineers, Site reliability Engineers and Platform Engineers can be confusing. Some people think they're all very similar, others would be highly offended to combine these roles as one! I would be interested to hear the opinions of my Technical connections to clear this up once and for all.  Do you think these roles should overlap, or is there a clear line of distinction? #devops #SRE #PlatformEngineer

We need a couple SRE! Got approved to hire in MY team, and there is another team looking for one or two more SRE members. I've put both links below... It's the usual story -- got some pretty good stuff, but got a lot of stuff/processes/tooling that needs fixin', so it's a great opportunity for someone who wants to "makes changes happen". Pretty well containerized at this point, we have an interesting mix of using centralized Ops tools and processes, and those of our own verticalized teams. Really good people on the teams, across US, India, and Europe (Spain + Bulgaria). Working closely with Dev/QA/Ops teams in those locations + China. I like our cultural mix, I like our knowledge mix, I think we could do better at doing cross-team socializing/interacting at a "human" level (which is my normal 'concern' with globalized team and very little travel budget!). I have a lot of faith and trust in our Org leadership, and my peers, so overall I think an excellent place to work. On My Team (Collaboration, Messaging, AI Svcs) https://lnkd.in/g4XZ-Pkd Part of Central SRE (Covers ALL our verticals, just not in as much depth for the aspects my team supports): https://lnkd.in/g8WtDedq

DevOps Engineer vs Platform Engineer vs SRE 🤷♂️ I am seeing more roles being advertised as Platform engineers, which after further reading seem to be a normal DevOps engineer spec. I am also seeing some profiles Call themselves DevOps / Platform Engineer. This may be because I am not as technical as the profiles I speak to, but are they becoming the same thing? I also see the same thing when it comes to SRE's. Can we come together to stick to one name, maybe DevSiteReliabilityPlatformOps. Surely this makes things easier 🤣 Can someone help educate me, am I massively wrong? #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #Cloud #SRE

DevOps vs SRE: Decoding the Tech Puzzle Confused about DevOps and SRE roles? You're not alone! Let's break it down: DevOps Engineers: The Pipeline Maestros Orchestrate the dev-to-prod symphony Tools of choice: Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes Live by the "automate everything" mantra Turn infrastructure nightmares into "infrastructure as code" dreams Site Reliability Engineers (SREs): The Uptime Guardians Obsess over nines (99.99% uptime, anyone?) Swear by Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty Juggles the SLAs, SLOs like a circus pro Turn post-mortems into learning festivals (Incident response, RPO RTO) The Plot Twist: DevOps sprints for speed, while SRE plays the long game for stability. But here's the kicker - in some companies, these roles blend like a tech smoothie! What's your experience? Is your org Team DevOps, Team SRE, or Team Hybrid? Drop your thoughts below! 👇 #TechRoles #DevOpsVsSRE #EngineeringCareers #TechTrends