DevOps

What is SRE? SRE stands for Site Reliability Engineering. That’s just a lot of words. What does it mean though? Site Reliability engineering is what IT operations would be if it was run by software engineers. That’s an interesting take. But it was not helpful in clarifying anything about SRE just yet. Let’s try probing more. How did we go from Development to SRE? You know the part where people deploy software and then ensure things run fine in production. ...

Background In the last 3 years or so, a lot of blog posts, youtube videos and tutorials came out about containerising applications. I had completely ignored this topic as there was no immediate use of containers that I could apply to my work. Those new to the software industry might not even have heard of containers. When I ask about it to those who brag about it, comparisons are made to Virtual machines but I never really got the details out from anyone, or you can say, I was not satisfied with explanations. ...