7 Key Drivers for Pushing SRE

(Pragmatic View)

1. SLO: Dev’s commitment to the business
   SLOs are the promise developers make to the business. Without commitment, there’s no baseline and no accountability for stability.

2. Role balance: Clear boundaries between Dev, Test, and Ops
   Who owns the problem when incidents happen? SRE pushes clear roles with mutual checks and smooth collaboration, reducing blame and blind spots.

3. Proactive offense and defense: Duck herding with chaos engineering
   Failures won’t wait for you to be ready. You must proactively inject faults to test system resilience and recovery.

4. Cost efficiency: Containerization and automation as cost-saving foundations
   Stability doesn’t come from overprovisioning but from smart architecture and automated resource management. SRE drives higher availability at lower cost.

5. Data-driven: Measure status and spot problems
   Not for vanity metrics but to identify unstable services, noisy alerts, and optimization targets. Without data, there’s no direction.

6. Automation: Repetitive work kills efficiency
   Deployments, scaling, alerting, and troubleshooting must be automated. SRE frees people from low-value manual tasks.

7. Postmortem: Use incidents to evolve the system
   Every failure is a system health check. Postmortems aren’t blame games but root cause digs for continuous improvement.