Building reliable (and testing) systems

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Scott Griffiths / June 30, 2021

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The Quest:#

To better understand the concepts, principles and the relationship between DevOps, SRE and different testing approaches. And how as automation engineers we can leverage these to our advantage

A Look at Devops#

DevOps is a set of practices that combines software development and IT operations

It’s about

  • Shared responsibility
  • A commitment to automation
  • Better work management

Which leads to

  • Ability to deploy more frequently
  • Better interaction, comms and collaboration
  • Reduced lead time

A Look at Sre (Site Reliability Engineering)#

Similar to DevOps With the focus being on reliability, SRE is a complementary practice for organizations seeking to scale their DevOps activities

Reliability through Building Thought Experiments Using Chaos#

Pain Is Inevitable. Suffering Is Optional#

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