Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has been around for some time now, yet it’s remained amorphous to many – even those of us in the business. Made famous by Google, the company defines SRE as, “what you get when you treat operations as if it’s a software problem.” Yet, this doesn’t fully address the depth of the term or what it represents. As SRE continues to gain momentum, let’s take a deeper look at what it is, how it relates to DevOps, and where to start.