← Back to context Comment by yaknh 5 years ago Why? Like we all are customers as well as an employee. 3 comments yaknh Reply ativzzz 5 years ago Because we as engineers create software for our customers, and if you don't understand who your customers are how can you create software that actually suits their needs?Very rarely are we our own customers fragmede 5 years ago I would argue that SREs are consistently our own customers in a way unique to SRE. ethbr0 5 years ago Ironic, as measurability came up in another comment thread I'm in.I'd say from a technical perspective SREs are, but there's a potential (depends on product) gap between their technical goals and user goals.e.g. What does "p95 latency is spiking" actually mean to the end user?
ativzzz 5 years ago Because we as engineers create software for our customers, and if you don't understand who your customers are how can you create software that actually suits their needs?Very rarely are we our own customers fragmede 5 years ago I would argue that SREs are consistently our own customers in a way unique to SRE. ethbr0 5 years ago Ironic, as measurability came up in another comment thread I'm in.I'd say from a technical perspective SREs are, but there's a potential (depends on product) gap between their technical goals and user goals.e.g. What does "p95 latency is spiking" actually mean to the end user?
fragmede 5 years ago I would argue that SREs are consistently our own customers in a way unique to SRE. ethbr0 5 years ago Ironic, as measurability came up in another comment thread I'm in.I'd say from a technical perspective SREs are, but there's a potential (depends on product) gap between their technical goals and user goals.e.g. What does "p95 latency is spiking" actually mean to the end user?
ethbr0 5 years ago Ironic, as measurability came up in another comment thread I'm in.I'd say from a technical perspective SREs are, but there's a potential (depends on product) gap between their technical goals and user goals.e.g. What does "p95 latency is spiking" actually mean to the end user?
Because we as engineers create software for our customers, and if you don't understand who your customers are how can you create software that actually suits their needs?
Very rarely are we our own customers
I would argue that SREs are consistently our own customers in a way unique to SRE.
Ironic, as measurability came up in another comment thread I'm in.
I'd say from a technical perspective SREs are, but there's a potential (depends on product) gap between their technical goals and user goals.
e.g. What does "p95 latency is spiking" actually mean to the end user?