Reliability Engineering teams focus on hiring software engineers to run our products and to create systems to accomplish the work that would otherwise be performed, often manually, by sysadmins - Site Reliability Engineering / Chapter1 Introduction: Google’s Approach to Service Management: Site Reliability Engineering
Product development and SRE teams can enjoy a productive working relationship by eliminating the structural conflict in their respective goals. The structural conflict is between pace of innovation and product stability, and as described earlier, this conflict often is expressed indirectly. In SRE we bring this conflict to the fore, and then resolve it with the introduction of an error budget. - Site Reliability Engineering / Chapter1 Introduction: Pursuing Maximum Change Velocity Without Violating a Service’s SLO