Lark Mullins

#sre posts

• 01/30/2025

  Implementing DevOps Principles for SRE Teams

  Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps share the common objective of ensuring that systems are reliable, scalable, and efficient. While DevOps focuses on fostering collaboration between development and operations teams, SRE takes a reliability-first approach, using data-driven methodologies to balance innovation with system stability. Incorporating DevOps principles into SRE practices can significantly enhance system performance, streamline operations, and foster a culture of shared responsibility across teams.

• 01/23/2025

  Essential Areas of Focus for a Site Reliability Engineering Team

  Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) plays a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and efficiency of modern systems. As businesses increasingly rely on complex, distributed infrastructure, SRE teams must focus on critical areas that enable sustainable operations and continuous improvement. A well-structured SRE approach helps organizations minimize downtime, improve scalability, and align engineering efforts with business goals.

• 01/09/2025

  Building an Observability Platform

  Building an observability platform is no longer a luxury but a necessity for organizations striving to maintain high performance, reliability, and scalability in today’s dynamic IT landscape. Modern applications are distributed across multiple environments, leveraging cloud, microservices, and containerized architectures. Observability provides critical insights into these complex systems, helping teams detect and resolve issues faster, optimize performance, and make data-driven decisions.