Tag: #Culture
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The Primitive Shapes of Reliability (SRE Glossary)
The core concepts every Platform Engineer must know, explained in plain English. Site Reliability Engineering can feel like alphabet soup. We drown in acronyms. But if you strip away the jargon, the discipline is built on just a few foundational blocks. Here are the core concepts of SRE, distilled. 1. The Metrics (Measuring Success) SLI…
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Reliability is a Feature, Not a Guardrail
Why “100% Uptime” is the wrong goal and how to build systems that embrace failure. Most organizations treat reliability like insurance: a policy you buy after the house is already built to protect against disaster. This is a fundamental architectural flaw. In modern distributed systems, reliability is not an operational afterthought—it is a product feature,…