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From Sysadmin to SRE in 2587 Words

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Vladimir Legeza

Site Reliability Engineering is a set of practices that allow a variety of companies to run and support systems at large scale efficiently and cost-effectively. The key difference that distinguishes sysadmins from SREs is the single property: the point of observation. There is only one fundamental principle that can drive you to this relatively new field and lead you to understand all these practices, origins, adaptations, and further improvement ideas that finally will increase your users’ and customers’ loyalty and satisfaction.

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Winter 2017, Vol. 42, No. 4
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