Reliability Evolution from Datacenter to Cloud

Reliability Evolution from Datacenter to Cloud: Interview with Less Lincoln, SRE at Microsoft

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A super quick read.

Less Lincoln shares tales of datacenter dysfunction and how the rise of automation and portability enabled cloud to evolve into what it is today. He talks about why reliability is hard and the misconceptions of the SRE role.

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