Demystifying SRE and DevOps

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Claims concrete practices: use Datadog-style observability plus monitoring, define SLOs and error budgets so teams get preapproved room to experiment, run small iterative releases with CI tests that map to runtime checks, publish open dashboards and SLO widgets and write nonretributive postmortems, organize work into product teams with temporary squads and guilds or rotating SREs, expect that no single hire fills every SRE skill and plan multiple experiments to find what actually works.

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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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