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SRE

Meaning in cloud computing & devops, with examples

abbreviationCommon term

In cloud computing & devops, SRE means: Short for site reliability engineering: using software engineering methods to run production systems reliably. It also names the engineer who does this work.

In Turkish: site güvenilirlik mühendisliği, SRE

How it is used

Started at Google in the early 2000s. Key ideas are SLOs, error budgets, automation and reducing 'toil' (repetitive manual work). People say 'an SRE', 'the SRE team' and 'SRE practices'.

Example sentences

  1. The SRE team owns the on-call process and the incident tooling.

  2. She moved from backend development to SRE because she enjoys debugging production problems.

Common collocations

  • SRE team
  • SRE practices
  • site reliability engineer
  • reduce toil
  • DevOpsA way of working in which developers and operations engineers share responsibility for building, releasing and running software, using automation to deliver changes quickly and safely.
  • SLOShort for service level objective: an internal reliability target for a service, such as 99.9 percent of requests succeeding over 30 days.
  • SLAShort for service level agreement: a contract that promises customers a certain level of service, such as 99.9 percent uptime, and says what happens if it is not met.
  • on-callAvailable outside normal hours to respond quickly if an alert or incident happens. Engineers take turns being on call for their services.
  • postmortemA written review after an incident that explains what happened, the impact, the timeline, the root cause and the actions that will stop it happening again.

This word in other fields

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