Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
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Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
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Re: Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
#2The book they mention[1] is very good so far.
[1]https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Betsy_Beyer_Site...
Re: Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
#3I've been seeing a lot of references to SRE recently. Is Google trying to market this position and acquire more engineers?
The SRE book, and Google in general, have mentioned that SREs are notoriously hard to hire, and I'm wondering if they are doing a marketing push.
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#4I used to be a scientist and I went to work at Google to apply their technology to science problems. My first team was SRE- and I have to say, Google's SRE approach to computing completely changed how I thought about things, and more importantly, how I programmed systems that went to production. I've read the SRE book and can highly recommend learning from the principles it lays out.
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#5I used to be a scientist and I went to work at Google to apply their technology to science problems. My first team was SRE- and I have to say, Google's SRE approach to computing completely changed how I thought about things, and more importantly, how I programmed systems that went to production. I've read the SRE book and can highly recommend learning from the principles it lays out.
Can you please give reference to that book ?
Re: Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
#6I don't know why this isn't on HN, but this is another interesting post from the Google Cloud Platform blog from today:
https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/Google-and-Rack...
Re: Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
#7I don't know why this isn't on HN, but this is another interesting post from the Google Cloud Platform blog from today: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/04/Google-and-Rack...
Re: Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
#8I used to be a scientist and I went to work at Google to apply their technology to science problems. My first team was SRE- and I have to say, Google's SRE approach to computing completely changed how I thought about things, and more importantly, how I programmed systems that went to production. I've read the SRE book and can highly recommend learning from the principles it lays out.
Can you please give reference to that book ?
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Re: Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
#9I've been seeing a lot of references to SRE recently. Is Google trying to market this position and acquire more engineers? The SRE book, and Google in general, have mentioned that SREs are notoriously hard to hire, and I'm wondering if they are doing a marketing push.
Anecdata here, but Google have been constantly hiring in SRE for as long as I can remember (in London).
As someone who's moving in that direction career wise I don't think they're any harder to hire than a good software engineer, the skillset differ somewhat, but the culture/thought process is very similar which is what you hire for.
Re: Lessons from a Google App Engine SRE on how to serve over 100B requests per day
#10I've been seeing a lot of references to SRE recently. Is Google trying to market this position and acquire more engineers? The SRE book, and Google in general, have mentioned that SREs are notoriously hard to hire, and I'm wondering if they are doing a marketing push.
SREs are very hard to hire, speaking from experience. At Google SRE directors and VPs will often cherry-pick promising candidates from the mainline SWE hiring pipeline and give them a "hero call" to convert them to SREs. SREs at Google are also paid more, controlling for level and performance, as a way to hire and retain.