Before deep dive into the SRE world, let’s talk about, where SRE is derived from. The concept of SRE got originated in 2003 by Ben Treynor Sloss. In 2003, when the cloud wasn’t a thing, Google was one of the most prominent web companies with a massive and distributed infrastructure. They had several challenges to face simultaneously; keep the trust and reputation of their services, provide a smooth user experience involving minimum downtime and latency, manage dozens of sprawling data centers, etc. They needed to rely heavily on automation and, thereby, formulated strategies that led them to implement large-scale automation. Small Companies at that time could bear the loss of a few hours of downtime but giants like Google could not afford it as they were a frontier of best user experience. Therefore, come to think of it, building a team that can help ensure the application’s availability and reliability was an obvious outcome.
