A good SRE is hard to find; or, The power of apprenticeship
Rowan Cota explains how BuzzFeed created a strong SRE team by growing the engineers it needed instead of waiting for them to fall out of the skyand how you can too. Rowan turns narrative examples into a framework that anyone can use to harness the power of growing potential to diversify and strengthen their teams.
| Talk Title | A good SRE is hard to find; or, The power of apprenticeship |
| Speakers | Rowan Cota (BuzzFeed) |
| Conference | O’Reilly Velocity Conference |
| Conf Tag | Build systems that drive business |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Date | October 31-November 2, 2018 |
| URL | Talk Page |
| Slides | Talk Slides |
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Site reliability engineer is currently a hot title—there are more openings than there are SREs to fill them. Hiring experienced SREs isn’t always an option, and sometimes you need someone with more software development experience than your average operations or sysadmin veteran has. Rowan Cota explains how BuzzFeed created a strong SRE team by growing the engineers it needed instead of waiting for them to fall out of the sky—and how you can too. Rowan turns narrative examples into a framework that illustrate the principles of a development framework anyone can apply to growing a software engineer into an SRE. And development doesn’t stop just because you’ve got the title. This framework can help any SRE team find their next great members and develop them into the engineers they were destined to be.
