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Are terms like ‘Error Budgets’ and SLOs roadblocks on your way to adopting SRE practices for your organization? Our latest blog talks of ‘How to SRE without an SRE on your team,’ where we look at some of the most elementary SRE concepts that you can start implementing right away! We help you pick SLOs, identify toil, and touch base on Automation for SREs along with few best practices to get you started on your SRE journey.


An organization with mature Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles may conjure images of engineers with years of experience in DevOps and System Administration, having a suite of specialized tools and experts dissecting each service outage. For an organization that is thinking of implementing SRE principles, this is an intimidating image and may seem unattainable. The truth is everyone can get started on their SRE journey by following a few elementary principles, which are outlined here. While we are not claiming that this is the only way to go forward when you don’t have an SRE as a job title or role in your team, it’s a good place to start.

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