Comment by tasuki

> Writing code was always the easy part of this job. The hard part was keeping your code running for the long time.

Spoken like a true SRE. I'm mostly writing code, rather than working on keeping it in production, but I've had websites up since 2006 (hope that counts as long time in this corner of the internet) with very little down time and frankly not much effort.

My experience with SREs was largely that they're glorified SSH: they tell me I'm the programmer and I should know what to type into their shell to debug the problem (despite them SREing those services for years, while I joined two months ago and haven't even seen the particular service). But no I can't have shell access, and yes I should be the one spelling out what needs to be typed in.