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Date Published
Author
Ravi Lachhman
Word count
2535
Language
English
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None

Summary

SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) and DevOps, while sharing common goals of improving system reliability and operational efficiency, differ in their focus and approaches. SRE emphasizes maintaining system reliability through engineering practices, often involving development-focused engineers who tackle operational and scalability challenges. In contrast, DevOps centers on collaboration and automation between development and operations teams to enhance engineering efficiency, involving ops-focused engineers who address development pipeline issues. Despite their overlapping goals, they solve distinct problems, with SRE concentrating on system health and uptime, while DevOps targets removing bottlenecks in the software delivery lifecycle. Both roles use metrics, such as SLAs, SLOs, and SLIs, to assess system performance, but DevOps also measures software delivery performance through the Accelerate metrics. Harness, a platform for Continuous Delivery and Verification, supports both DevOps and SRE teams by providing tools to manage deployment, track software reliability metrics, and enhance system resilience through Chaos Engineering.