Site Reliability Engineers
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Murray: SRE first response is the most common cloud agent use case
“I think the easiest and most common use case I see across everyone is SRE use cases. The idea that whether we have our alerts in Slack or Datadog or wherever they're going, we want the agent to be the first responder on that.”
Koratana: SRE, QA, and support engineering functions will merge over time
“I actually, I genuinely think that as we start centralizing this context, all of these different functions that we were talking about earlier, right? Starting from SRE on like the most, you know, reactive, you know, infrastructure heavy side all the way down t…”
Ayrey: Data scientists leak API keys more frequently than SREs
“Data scientists leak out API keys and passwords more often than site reliability engineers.”
Fournier: Platform engineering teams must include dedicated software engineers, not just SREs
“First of all, I really am a very strong believer that like platform engineering has to involve software engineering. If you don't have any software engineers on your platform team, and you only have like, you know, more like operation systems engineers, DevOps…”
Nilo Rahmani: SRE engineer turnover averages one to two years from burnout
“Like the average turnover for engineers like us is one to two years. We experienced a lot of burnout.”
Podjarny: DevSecOps practitioners must be software builders, not passive auditors
“A DevSecOps person is very similar to an SRE. They should be a person able to build software build services and help developers successfully find issues and fix them as opposed to an auditor who should be good at finding those issues themselves and doing it.”
Stewart: Enterprise managed cloud demand is driven by SRE hiring bottlenecks
“When we first built it, we were thinking, hey, this is for the startups. This is for the growth stage companies. But what we've seen in practice is that even the enterprises are like, we cannot hire site reliability engineers or operators fast enough to run th…”