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Seeing like an SRE - USENIX
In 'Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism' [1], Laura Nolan introduced James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition have Failed [2]. She also compared SRE to High Modernism. It is a deeply interesting comparison, in particular because I think they share a lot of the ...
Avoiding the 'SLOs as Reliability Theater' trap | USENIX
In her recent ;login: article 'Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism', [1], Laura Nolan considers SRE through the prism of James C. Scott's Seeing Like a State [2], and suggests that for some sysadmins, "SRE is seen as a high modernist project, intent on scientifically managing their systems, all techne and no metis" [3].