# Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - [wikipedia: Site Reliability Engineering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Reliability_Engineering) - [cloud.google.com: SRE vs. DevOps: competing standards or close friends?](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/sre-vs-devops-competing-standards-or-close-friends) - [overops.com: DevOps vs. SRE: What’s the Difference Between Them, and Which One Are You?](https://blog.overops.com/devops-vs-sre-whats-the-difference-between-them-and-which-one-are-you/) - [victorops.com: SRE vs. DevOps](https://victorops.com/blog/sre-vs-devops) - [devops.com: SRE vs. DevOps — a False Distinction?](https://devops.com/sre-vs-devops-false-distinction/) - [devops.com: SRE vs. DevOps vs. Cloud Native: The Server Cage Match](https://devops.com/sre-devops-cloud-native-server-cage-match/) - [bmc.com: SRE vs DevOps: What’s The Difference?](https://www.bmc.com/blogs/sre-vs-devops/) - [dzone: SRE vs. DevOps: SRE Is to DevOps What Scrum Is to Agile](https://dzone.com/articles/sre-vs-devopssre-is-to-devops-what-scrum-is-to-agi) - [linkedin: DevOps vs Site Reliability Engineering](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/devops-vs-site-reliability-engineering-sean-washington/) - [Google: What is Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)?](https://landing.google.com/sre/) SRE is what you get when you treat operations as if it’s a software problem. Our mission is to protect, provide for, and progress the software and systems behind all of Google’s public services — Google Search, Ads, Gmail, Android, YouTube, and App Engine, to name just a few — with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity. - [opensource.com: What is an SRE and how does it relate to DevOps?](https://opensource.com/article/18/10/sre-startup) The SRE role is common in large enterprises, but smaller businesses need it, too.
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