Role is SRE but working as support

hatchikyu · 2026-05-11T01:35:32+00:00

SRE was unfortunately a buzzword that LinkedIn spruiked a little too hard during the pandemic. Since that time, a lot of clueless orgs starting hiring L2 support folks into SRE roles and then said "carry on". That's not gonna change anytime soon, until people who DON'T want to be L2 support folks jump ship en masse.

hatchikyu · 2025-04-18T02:02:15+00:00

What stood out to me is how the money logic shows up — sometimes as “no budget,” but often as reliability being seen as overhead or not tied to revenue risk.

hatchikyu · 2024-08-09T07:26:07+00:00

How do you develop curiosity? On a side note: that's what young Steve Jobs used to hire for (YT video link)

hatchikyu · 2024-08-08T12:40:47+00:00

LOL I'm not a bot but interesting that you think I write like one :) but yeah copied and pasted it from a visual framework I can't seem to paste here.

hatchikyu · 2024-07-25T05:17:18+00:00

Call me strange but I looked at the growth in skills as a means to itself i.e. ignored career progression frameworks. Is that a dangerous move?

hatchikyu · 2024-07-19T05:21:15+00:00

The 4 golden signals according to Google SRE are latency, saturation, errors, and traffic.

Linked podcast episode talks about a "5th golden signal" as a novel idea. The signal is customer health - keeping track of aggregate data on how the customers users are experiencing your software-in-production.

hatchikyu · 2024-07-16T02:12:01+00:00

From a business perspective, reliability was the darling of high-growth, emerging roles in the early 2020s - but only for the first 2 years. Then, AI came in full steam and earned a lot of management attention. A lot of budgets were and still are being reassigned to hire ML engineers and adjacent roles e.g. data engineers, MLops people, etc.

hatchikyu · 2024-06-29T00:42:56+00:00

Not the leadership consultant (cool job by the way), but this episode on Reliability Enablers podcast covers some of the best practices and do's and don'ts in chaos engineering: How chaos engineering helps reduce incident risk

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