{"id":14969,"date":"2018-10-12T10:31:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T14:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?p=14969"},"modified":"2018-11-02T10:43:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T14:43:48","slug":"rh-saparov-oct18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/2018\/10\/12\/rh-saparov-oct18\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hat Colloquium: &#8220;Why consider a career as an SRE?&#8221;, Mike Saparov (Red Hat)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday,\u00a0October 23rd, 2018,\u00a012:00 PM \u2013 1:00 PM<br \/>\nrefreshments &amp; networking\u00a0at 11:30 AM<br \/>\nHariri Institute for Computing<br \/>\n111 Cummington Mall, Room 180<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Saparov<\/strong><br \/>\nRed Hat Service Reliability Team<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Why consider a career as an SRE?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>What do SREs actually do? And why do they get paid so much? :)<\/p>\n<p>Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) team was originally created at Google to manage their massive infrastructure. According Google&#8217;s SRE page, SRE is what you get when you treat operations as if it&#8217;s a software problem. So why suddenly is every organization &#8211; from Red Hat to AWS to Bank of America and TicketMaster &#8211; interested in SREs and SRE culture? Hint: it may be related to a technological shift brought by containers and kubernetes.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/hic\/files\/2018\/10\/mikeRH.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"254\" class=\" wp-image-14970 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2018\/10\/mikeRH.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2018\/10\/mikeRH-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2018\/10\/mikeRH-189x189.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/files\/2018\/10\/mikeRH-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 254px) 100vw, 254px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>io:\u00a0<\/strong>Mike Saparov is a Senior Director of SRE @ Red Hat. He joined Red Hat as part of CoreOS, where as a\u00a0VP of Engineering he oversaw development of CoreOS Linux, etcd, and Tectonic, the first immutable\u00a0Kubernetes distro.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to that Mike was an engineering executive at a number of Silicon Valley companies, founded his own\u00a0startup, wrote compilers, and did research on High Performance Computing at Stanford.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday,\u00a0October 23rd, 2018,\u00a012:00 PM \u2013 1:00 PM refreshments &amp; networking\u00a0at 11:30 AM Hariri Institute for Computing 111 Cummington Mall, Room 180 Mike Saparov Red Hat Service Reliability Team Why consider a career as an SRE? Abstract: What do SREs actually do? And why do they get paid so much? :) Service Reliability Engineering (SRE) team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13376,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11748,11779,11747,11716,11777],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14971,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14969\/revisions\/14971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}