Why “sre” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
SRE has been around for at least a decade or more.
by gtirloni · Oct 31, 2026
I had never heard about SRE before and suddenly it's all I see. Modern problems (slop fest) require modern solutions (someone to babysit broken systems)? Site reliability engine…
by vhantz · Oct 31, 2026
Imagine SRE that very quickly triaged the incident, gave solution and it turns out that solution made system ever worse, and after that he/she said: "You're absolutely, rig…
by mglvsky · Oct 30, 2026
What would you think of easier-to-debug infrastructure building blocks? I'm building an easier-to-debug web server and reverse proxy, and I want to know how this would compare t…
by dorianniemiec · Oct 30, 2026
It's not a great example. The plane lands in the same amount of time whether an autopilot lands it or a human, so there's no incidental cost. If you let a human SRE handle a pro…
by pmarreck · Oct 30, 2026
The difference between a junior SRE and a dev is that during an outage the dev will take responsibility for their own code only[1] While the SRE will follow the problem to the n…
by slyall · Oct 30, 2026
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