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Ajay Rathee

Site Reliability Engineering(SRE) Versus DevOps

Streamlining operations with speed and scale has always remained a challenge. In the era of a rapidly expanding world into teams distributed across geographies, it becomes even more critical. If the very premise that it is not a cost centre but an innovation centre is not propagated, things shall remain slow and we may miss out the crucial transformative opportunity.


SRE: Conceptualized by Google, SRE is defined as process where a software engineer also doubles up and designs operational team. It’s both an ongoing business practice as well as a job role. It takes on the operational issues with advanced software paradigms and new-age software tools.

DevOps 101

In essence, DevOps increase speed and scale in an organisation and speeds up its delivery applications and services. In tandem with organisations trying to leverage its traditional software development and IT processes, the Devops with its break-neck pace comes handy. It helps in surpassing customer experience with a heightened effectiveness.



Similarity Between SRE and Devops

  • Both agree that change is crucial for improvement.

  • Both agree that organizational collaboration in key to success.

  • Leveraging automation for change management for testing and deployment with a guideline deploying small batches should be encouraged.

  • At every process stage/ layer measuring the success is key.

  • Both are holistic in essence. And won’t agree less than 100% adoption.

  • Both agree that post-mortems should be blameless to genuinely increase team efforts.

Difference Between SRE and DevOps:

DevOps’s broad impactful principles apply to the entire business chain but they don’t specify how you run operations of services. SRE, meanwhile, is very regimented and user-oriented. It dictates how to run operations and service keeping in mind the end customer. SRE is integral to actual roles. Whereas, DevOps is phenomenon adopted by broader team or the entire company.


SRE Methods help implement the following:

  • Share Tools: A mix bag of tools facilitates the operational divergence and help minimising the extremely costing tooling.

  • Share the Burden with Developers: SRE by primarily focusing on change management and monitoring takes the burden of the development team.

  • Mean Time by Moving Fast: In improving product output time to recovery time is reduced. This enables a business’s ability to take on more velocity.

DevOps Methods That can be implemented:

  • Piecemeal Changes: It’s desirable to have regular slow-risk changes ag against the updates that are gigantic.

  • Perfectly placed tooling stacks are integral in intertwining tooling and culture.

  • It helps in doing away with the silos.

  • And we have to continuously measure progress for constant improvement.

SRE and DevOps are very essential and highly handy practices that can make or mar the overall effectiveness of a project. If use judiciously, they can bring in the speed and scale both. For a well-recognised bouquet of services in this paradigm, do come to us. Our new-age team will make it easy, smooth and secure for you and at a greater speed.

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