A Case Study in Community-Driven Software Adoption
How Google SRE Changed Its Behavior Without Changing Its Culture
by Richard Bondi
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Richard Bondi has been an engineer at Google since 2011, specializing in the entire web stack and working on travel applications. In 2016 he converted to SRE, and then joined the SRE tech writer team. Before Google, and after leaving his political philosophy PhD program to join the first of many internet startups, he wrote a book on the Microsoft CryptoAPI, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 
Book Description
Within an SRE organization, teams usually develop very different automation tools and processes for accomplishing similar tasks. Some of this can be explained by the software they support: different systems require different reliability solutions. But many SRE tasks are essentially the same across all software: compiling, building, deploying, canarying, load testing, managing traffic, monitoring, and so on. There are two puzzles here: why does this diversity exist, and how can it be overcome so that SRE teams stop duplicating their development efforts?Richard Bondi has been an engineer at Google since 2011, specializing in the entire web stack and working on travel applications. In 2016 he converted to SRE, and then joined the SRE tech writer team. Before Google, and after leaving his political philosophy PhD program to join the first of many internet startups, he wrote a book on the Microsoft CryptoAPI, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Table of Contents
A Case Study in Community-Driven Software Adoption
The Mystery of Sisyphus
Challenge 1: The Red Queen
Challenge 2: The Curse of Autonomy
Overcoming the Challenges
Success and Its Costs
An Actionable Takeaway
Book Details
Title
A Case Study in Community-Driven Software Adoption
Subject
Computer Science
Publisher
O'Reilly Media
Published
2019
Pages
39
Edition
1
Language
English
ISBN13 Digital
9781098114565
ISBN10 Digital
1098114566
PDF Size
4.9 MB
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