Understanding SRE

<p>Vlad is Head of Research and Development at <a href="https://www.siemens-healthineers.com/">Siemens Healthineers</a>, the healthcare arm of tech conglomerate <a href="https://www.siemens.com/global/en.html">Siemens</a>. He wrote about SRE on our blog <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/03/20/who-builds-it-and-who-runs-it-sre-team-topologies/">here</a>.</p><p>His book, <a href="https://www.informit.com/store/establishing-sre-foundations-a-step-by-step-guide-to-9780137424658"><i>Establishing SRE Foundations: A Step-by-Step Guide to Introducing Site Reliability Engineering in Software Delivery Organizations</i></a>, is available now. </p><p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/what-is/sre/">Site reliability engineering (SRE)</a> applies a software engineering approach to IT operations and infrastructure, with the goal of building scalable, reliable systems capable of handling constant updates from dev teams. SRE is closely related to <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/07/26/platform-engineering-is-just-devops-with-a-product-mindset/">DevOps</a>.</p><p>ICYMI, we talked with Chef cofounder Adam Jacob about how he’s creating a new-and-improved approach to infrastructure automation. Listen to that conversation <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/06/27/the-cofounder-of-chef-is-cooking-up-a-less-painful-devops-ep-584/">here</a>.</p><p>Connect with Vlad on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-vladyslav-ukis-5172ba32/?originalSubdomain=de">LinkedIn</a>, where you can also read snippets of his book on SRE.</p><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/8842/lifeboat">Lifeboat badge</a> winner <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/users/1887150/abbas-galiyakotwala">Abbas Galiyakotwala</a>’s answer to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27035042/how-do-i-split-a-comma-separated-string/27035130#27035130">How do I split a comma-separated string?</a> filled a void of ignorance with a little extra knowledge.</p>