Fitting Site Reliability & Developer Experience into Your Team’s Priorities

This talk will focus on how you can use principles & metrics from Site Reliability teams and Developer Experience teams to create a culture of technical excellence, high velocity, and psychological safety.

When thinking about metrics that guide technical & team strategy, there are two underlying priorities that ideally should align towards one goal: system and engineering team health. Metrics relating to system health provide insight on how stable the user experience is, whereas engineering team health metrics provide insight on the experience of the engineers building these systems.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) defines the guiding principles and processes for ensuring system health, whereas Developer Experience (DX) is less about the actual system and more about the tools, processes, and productivity levels related to the development cycle of that system.