Thursday, June 21, 2018

Site Reliability Engineer



An SRE (as one is affectionately called)

Not only has to be a jack of all trades
But also the proverbial master of few
While not forgetting the tricks of the old
She should also keep learning the new

If you ask people what Site Reliability is
Each will give you a different kind of answer
They range from being a rugged fire fighter
To a true-to-the-fault lithe ballet dancer

An overzealous developer would say it only stops
Old Pops would say it's nothing but mere Ops
It's DevOps on Production says the senior manager
Keeping the s**t together muses the in-house philosopher

An SRE is the systems dude to the developers
And the development guy to the Operations
Ultimately he is the one everybody blames
And made responsible for the Abrogations

Whatever the truth, this everybody agrees with
SRE is here to stay for good and is not a myth...