Demystifying SRE and DevOps

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Claims that matter: SRE is a pragmatic implementation of DevOps not a slogan, Datadog uses squads and guilds to share work across product teams, and organizing as product teams with you build it you run it measurably shortens feedback loops. Tools emphasized are CI with reliable tests, monitoring plus observability (not a replacement), open dashboards and clear paging policies. Concrete practices: blameless postmortems, defining service level objectives (SLOs) and error budgets, and learning from real incidents like the AWS S3 and Hawaii alert examples.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:05Demystifying SRE and DevOps
3. 1:40Clear up confusion about what DevOps and SRE are.
4. 3:46Culture
5. 24:04Skills and Characteristics of SRE
6. 26:171642 Caution: Pitfalls

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