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6 differences you must know when choosing between SRE Vs DevOps

SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) and DevOps are popular buzzwords in the tech industry.

They are both approaches to improving the reliability and performance of software systems.

SRE is a discipline that ensures software systems are highly available, scalable and efficient.

DevOps, on the other hand, is a culture and set of practices that aims to bring development and operations teams together to improve collaboration, communication and automate the software delivery process.

Here are 6 differences you must know when choosing between SRE Vs DevOps:

Here are 6 differences you must know when choosing between SRE Vs DevOps

Difference 1

SRE is a set of practices & metrics. Vs DevOps is a mindset of culture & collaboration.

Difference 2

SRE is tool-agnostic & approach centric. Vs DevOps focuses on tools & pipelines.

Difference 3

SRE solves for operational & reliability problems. Vs DevOps solves for development pipeline problems.

Difference 4

SRE focuses on development focused. Vs DevOps is Ops Focused.

Difference 5

SRE automates redundancy. Vs DevOps automates deployment.

Difference 6

Metrics for SRE are - Error Budgets, SLOs, SLIs & SLAs. Vs Metrics for DevOps are - Deployment Frequency, Failure Rate.

SRE Vs DevOps

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