Whitepaper

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & DevOps

October 15, 2020

Authors:

Niek van Raaij

Edo Poll

How to run your IT organization like a software product

In times when IT has become a critical factor in your business, the IT landscape, systems and processes have to be reliable.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) can be used to improve multiple areas within your organization. It’s another way of doing DevOps, but instead of focusing on increasing velocity and collaboration between development and operation teams, SRE focusses on system reliability.

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About Niek van Raaij

Niek is a passionate DevOps consultant with an entrepreneurial mindset who specializes in IT operations and DevOps

His focus is on translating strategy into execution, by working on multiple areas such as culture, governance, and technology.

He adheres to the principle “practice as you preach” by combining coaching and consulting skills with hands-on technical experience.

About Edo Poll

He takes different perspectives on issues and inspires others to do the same. His hands-on attitude ensures that he doesn’t just spout good ideas but will execute them to successful completion.

Edo attends to all aspects of software development and balances customer needs, process and technology. To let people work together and share knowledge are fundamental to his way of working.

Edo has many years of experience acting as an intermediary between development (applications) and operations (infrastructure), pre-dating the DevOps methodology by many years. For Edo DevOps means bringing engineering to operations, and awareness of operational qualities to development. He helps teams to become truly autonomous, while functioning as part of a larger organization, by transforming both the organization and the IT architecture. His favorite method is to teach teams to design, develop and deliver true products to their (internal) customer.

In his spare time, Edo has a passion for buildings architecture, robots and board games. He uses his experiences in those activities to show how much fun IT can be, seeking the analogies between IT and other areas like building, engineering and the process manufacturing. Or by organizing robot workshops for students, his colleagues’ children, or his customer. Edo has used his board game experience to design serious IT games in order to gamify the training experience.

 

 
 
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