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Stephen Thorne

Site Reliability Engineering is Operations

I saw two emotionally charged opinions on Twitter this week about SRE and Operations. They really made me think.

Dec 19, 2018

Site Reliability Engineering is Operations

Dec 19, 2018

SRE Consensus Building

I did a call out on Twitter to ask about what I should write about. Two of the responses resonated with me.

Jul 2, 2017

Jul 2, 2017

Release Engineering

How do you release software in a safe way, with reliability in mind? How do you bring together your development process with SRE practices…

May 25, 2017

Release Engineering

May 25, 2017

Service Level Objectives in Practice

Service Level Objectives,or SLOs are the fundamental basis of all Site Reliability Engineering. Without them you can’t have error budgets…

May 16, 2017

May 16, 2017

Service Level Indicators in Practice

How well is your system working, right now?

May 11, 2017

Service Level Indicators in Practice

May 11, 2017

Planned Outages

Planned outages can make systems at Google more reliable.

Apr 11, 2017

Planned Outages

Apr 11, 2017

Service Level Objectives

Definitions of what a SLI and an SLO are, and talking about how to define one.

Apr 5, 2017

Service Level Objectives

Apr 5, 2017

Motivation for Error Budgets

Error budgets represent the amount of failure we expect to actually have.

Apr 2, 2017

Motivation for Error Budgets

Apr 2, 2017

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Risk Tolerance of Services

How to decide how fault tolerant you really want to be and defining the value of reliability.

Mar 29, 2017

Risk Tolerance of Services

Mar 29, 2017

Commentary on Site Reliability Engineering

In-order index of all my published articles on the SRE book.

Mar 23, 2017

Mar 23, 2017

Stephen Thorne

Stephen Thorne

Stephen is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google, where he works on the Google Cloud Platform.

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