From DevOps to SRE: Making the Transition

I moved from a DevOps title to an SRE title about 6 years ago. On paper, they look similar. In practice, the mindset is different. Here's what actually changed for me. DevOps: 'how do we ship faster?' SRE: 'how do we ship faster without breaking things?' DevOps is a culture and a set of practices for getting software from code to production quickly. SRE adds a discipline of reliability as a first-class concern. What changed for me I stopped being a YES person on deploys. As a DevOps engineer, I