History of SRE: Why Google Invented the SRE Role
A history of Site Reliability Engineering from its origins at Google in 2003 to the present.
April 24, 2022
9 min read
Our co-founder JJ reflects on building the fastest-growing incident management platform and the surprising learnings.
For this episode we’re continuing to “Build Things on Purpose” with JJ Tang, co-founder of Rootly, who joins us to talk about incident response, the tool he’s built, and his many lessons learned from incidents. Rootly is aiming to automate some of the more tedious work around incidents, and keeping that consistency. JJ chats about why he and his co-founder built Rootly, and the problems they’re trying to fix and eliminate when it comes to reliability. JJ reflects on what sets Rootly apart, how they handle chaos engineering, and more!
In this episode, we cover: