Monday, November 25, 2019
12:00 PM -
1:00 PM
Annenberg 105
CMS-EE Partners Tech Talk
Series: CMS-EE Partners Event Series
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) at Google
Blair Zajac,
Google,
Speaker's Bio:
Blair Zajac is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager for three Site Reliability Engineering teams at Google’s Los Angeles office, where he's been for the last five years. Previously, Blair was an architect at Sony Pictures Imageworks and before that, worked at a few other Internet companies (Yahoo!, Akamai, GeoCities). Blair has a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Caltech and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Washington.
Blair Zajac is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager for three Site Reliability Engineering teams at Google’s Los Angeles office, where he's been for the last five years. Previously, Blair was an architect at Sony Pictures Imageworks and before that, worked at a few other Internet companies (Yahoo!, Akamai, GeoCities). Blair has a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Caltech and a B.S. in Physics from the University of Washington.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is fundamentally doing work that has historically been done by an operations team, but using engineers with software expertise, and banking on the fact that these engineers are inherently both predisposed to, and have the ability to, substitute automation for human labor. On top of that, in Google, we have a bunch of rules of engagement, and principles for how SRE teams interact with their environment -- not only the production environment, but also the development teams, the testing teams, the users, and so on. Those rules and work practices help us to keep doing primarily engineering work and not operations work.
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