Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
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Re: Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
#2not once does the writer explain what she means by "SRE" -- yet uses it repeatedly. Spend a few words early on to define your term and then go ahead and abbreviate away. That's just writing 101.
Re: Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
#3Here's a similar one we use a lot in all sorts of slide sets at Facebook: http://imgur.com/a/EN0G8
(Stolen from Pedro's "Notes from Production Engineering" talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugkkza3vKbc , Pyramid shows up around 47:30 min PE = Production Engineer. It's a similar role although not exactly the same as the usual SRE role.)
It's a bit of a different view on the same underlying work. Interesting to see how they slightly differ.
Re: Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
#4not once does the writer explain what she means by "SRE" -- yet uses it repeatedly. Spend a few words early on to define your term and then go ahead and abbreviate away. That's just writing 101.
had to go all the way to her Google+ bio to find out that she's a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, so I'm guessing that SRE in this essay means that.
Re: Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
#5not once does the writer explain what she means by "SRE" -- yet uses it repeatedly. Spend a few words early on to define your term and then go ahead and abbreviate away. That's just writing 101.
if you don't know what an SRE is, you're not the intended audience. probably half of the articles posted to HN are unintelligible to non-practitioners of that particular subfield, don't see why this should be different.
Re: Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
#6I've come to the conclusion that drawing these distinctions is actually harmful in the long run. Software engineering requires operational understanding. If you hire programmers that do not know how to spin up a VM and codify their deployment processes then hiring SREs is not really going to fix anything.
Re: Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
#7not once does the writer explain what she means by "SRE" -- yet uses it repeatedly. Spend a few words early on to define your term and then go ahead and abbreviate away. That's just writing 101.
It stands for "site reliability engineer" but the term is as meaningless as "full stack engineer".
Re: Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
#8not once does the writer explain what she means by "SRE" -- yet uses it repeatedly. Spend a few words early on to define your term and then go ahead and abbreviate away. That's just writing 101.
if you don't know what an SRE is, you're not the intended audience. probably half of the articles posted to HN are unintelligible to non-practitioners of that particular subfield, don't see why this should be different.
That just makes this a problem with HN rather than with the blog. HN's audience is not narrow, and it's annoying to see so many interesting titles leading to incomprehensible articles.
It really helps when HN posters either clarify things a bit in the title, or if that's not practical, make a comment when you post the link.
Re: Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
#9not once does the writer explain what she means by "SRE" -- yet uses it repeatedly. Spend a few words early on to define your term and then go ahead and abbreviate away. That's just writing 101.
I've modified the title to expand the acronym. Apologies for the confusion; I forgot that not everyone's head is where mine is. (I'm not the author of the article; I just found it interesting and wanted to share.)
Re: Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs (2015)
#10Cute title. For those who missed the reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs
A business version would be good, something above the pure profit-motive... actualization as a moral, sustainable, environmental, socially engaged organization that gives more than it takes from society. (Note: This is critically different to the SV-dominant self-image band-aid approach of large scale post-profit philanthropy.)