https://systemoverlord.com/tags/sre.htmlRecent content in SRE on System OverlordHugoen-usdavid@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik)david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik)Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:08:01 +0000https://systemoverlord.com/2012/03/12/2-weeks-at-google/Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:08:01 +0000david@systemoverlord.com (David Tomaschik)https://systemoverlord.com/2012/03/12/2-weeks-at-google/<p> Two weeks at Google have been... amazing.  There's a lot that I can't talk about, but I can feel comfortable in confirming some of the things you hear about Google:</p> <ul><li> The people are insanely smart.</li> <li> The scale blows your mind as a Noogler (new Googler).</li> <li> The food is great.</li> <li> It has culture.</li> </ul><p> I'm a "Site Reliability Engineer" which is a job title that may not exist anywhere else.  It's basically production-oriented operational engineering: keeping production systems running and making them run better.</p>