2: Site Reliability Engineering: Helping you fall into the Pit of Success

In the second episode of the Development Best Practices podcast, Josh Taylor, ILM Senior Consultant, tells us a bit more about Site Reliability Engineering. He dives a bit deeper into how SREs involvement in architecture decisions, building trust, and how SREs integrate with a development team. Lastly, Josh talks about starting an SRE practice, and how a developer can move into this growing and exciting field. If you haven't listened to our last episode, Site Reliability Engineering: SRE Definition, Languages, and Skills, I would encourage you to do so before listening to this one - Josh does a nice job of laying the groundwork behind Site Reliability Engineering along with the skills and tools needed to make it work.

1:40 SRE involvement in architecture
3:40 SREs ARE developers
4:50 Creating buy-in and building trust
6:00 Creating buy-in and building trust - with the business side
6:20 How to fall into the pit of success
6:50 Where do SREs integrate into a development team?
7:50 Best practices around application optimization
9:15 What information should a dev bring to an SRE?
10:00 Developer access to SRE tools
11:00 The Legend of SRE PTO
11:20 How to start an SRE practice
13:40 How do developers get into Site Reliability Engineering?

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