SRE: Lessons from a Parallel Universe

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Explains concrete SRE practices: adopt service SLAs and error budgets and gate releases when budgets are exhausted; create a common staffing pool and cap operational load at 50% operational load so devs take the pager; run blameless postmortems that focus on process and controls not people; require executive buy-in before changing launch or paging policies. References Google SRE book, parallels at Facebook/Production Engineering, and practical experience with container tooling from Apps era.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:03What is SRE
3. 2:49DevOps vs SRE
4. 3:51SRE origins
5. 5:36SRE fundamentals
6. 8:46Virtuous loops
7. 10:10Management support
8. 11:34Resources and closing

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