I've been a "Region Lead" at work for almost two years now. In practice, this is an Operations lead/coordinator, and has taken up 110% of my time at work (*slight* exaggeration :D ), but I have not really been involved in anything else.

I'm starting to feel it with having a lack of understanding of the actual function of operators we're creating. I've been too removed from the coding side of things. It's amazing how quickly things "move on" if you're not involved directly.

#sre #srelife

Sometimes you get to be criminal, victim, law enforcement officer, prosecutor, defense counsel, judge, jury, and executioner all in the course of one #bug. I should have known it was me when I encountered the word REDACTED in a place where I wasn’t expecting it. #srelife

Me: my VPN on my phone no longer works
IT: why do you need the VPN on your phone?
Me: I am oncall 24x7 in perpetuity
IT: OK

#SRE #SRELife

Aaaaaand success! DB resizing went about as smoothly as could be expected. Time to catch a few more Z's before the day starts for real xD

#OpsLife #Ops #CloudOps #SRE #SRELife

Livin' that ops life, which means I get to wake up for a 2:30am operation to take the database offline and resize it during our traffic nadir. 😎

Wish me luck!

#OpsLife #Ops #CloudOps #SRE #SRELife

We are living in 2022. We no longer brag about uptimes we brag about no downtimes. #SRELife

We are living in 2022. We no longer brag about uptimes we brag about no downtimes. #SRELife