I recently listened to a podcast from the folks over at Packetpushers/Datanauts titled “SRE Vs. Cloud Native Vs. DevOps” and it was a great listen.  The show featured Rob Hirschfeld (of RackN / Digital Rebar), who lives and works in this space, to get his thoughts on the terminologies and how they relate to one another (or do not relate).  He talked about the differences and similarities between these terms and the one topic that stood out the most for me was that ops is only now starting to catch up to developers in terms of workflow and tooling, and how Google brought parity between developers and ops by creating Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) which allowed ops and development to work more closely in creating, shipping, and maintaining code.  I have often said that servers and network devices are just a meaningless jumble of electronics without software to run on top of them, so it makes sense for ops and software developers to work together to make the end product better. Read more