Site Reliability Engineering SRE and DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps are two methodologies for software development.

Cloud SRE is a discipline that incorporates aspects of software engineering and applies them to infrastructure and operations problems. The main goals are to create scalable and highly reliable software systems. SREs are responsible for ensuring that the companys services have reliability and uptime appropriate to users needs and a fast rate of improvement while keeping an eye on capacity and performance.

DevOps is a software development strategy that bridges the gap between the development (Dev) and operations (Ops) teams. In the past these two teams have often worked in silos but DevOps encourages a collaborative approach. The aim is to shorten the system development life cycle and provide continuous delivery of highquality software.

While both Cloud SRE and DevOps aim to increase efficiency and streamline processes they approach these goals from slightly different angles. Both roles require a strong understanding of software development and infrastructure and often involve coding scripting process reengineering and a variety of other tasks.