# SRE Doesn't Scale

DevFeed: [SRE Doesn't Scale](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/sre-doesn-t-scale-23004.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://bravenewgeek.com/sre-doesnt-scale/>)

Author: Matthew Thompson

Published: 2021-10-06T15:44:55Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Brave New Geek](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/brave-new-geek.md>)

Topics: [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>), [Microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microservices.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>)

Tags: [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/culture.md>), [devops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devops.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [microservices](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microservices.md>), [on-prem](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/on-prem.md>), [operations](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/operations.md>), [ops](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ops.md>), [product-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product-development.md>), [sre](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sre.md>)

## AI overview

The article discusses challenges in scaling the SRE model, arguing that the model can be resource-intensive and that adopting microservices and cloud infrastructure increases organizational and technology complexity. It references Google's experience and the evolving SRE engagement model.

## Source excerpt

We encounter a lot of organizations talking about or attempting to implement SRE as part of our consulting at Real Kinetic. We've even discussed and debated ourselves, ad nauseam, how we can apply it at our own product company, Witful. There's a brief, unassuming section in the SRE book tucked away towards the tail end of chapter 32, "The Evolving SRE Engagement Model." Between the SLIs and SLOs, the error budgets, alerting, and strategies for handling change management, it's probably one of the most overlooked parts of the book. It's also, in my opinion, one of the most important.