Site Reliability

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. The discipline of keeping services reliable through engineering approaches to operations, including automation, observability, incident response, and performance management. The phrase is strongly associated with the SRE model popularized by Google.

    In plain English: The engineering work involved in keeping online services stable and dependable.

    Example: "Site reliability became its own focus area once uptime goals started driving architecture decisions."

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