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The key to success with SRE is to start simple. Stay focused on these essential elements, and add more sophistication only after you are comfortable implementing these basic principles. Remember the goal is to build and deliver software that your customer perceives as reliable. The reliability engineering practices described here are simply tools to facilitate your attainment of that goal. In order to obtain meaningful reliability estimates you must be able to quantify and measure the software behavior with respect to the desired reliability objectives. You must test and testing should be driven by a usage profile. If there are not enough resources to test until the reliability goals are met you will at least know where you are and hopefully will be able to apply lessons learned to your next effort. This article provides only a cursory view of SRE noting the key factors of each topic.
