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Jeroen Mulder
Jeroen Mulder
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Jeroen Mulder

Jeroen Mulder is a certified enterprise and security architect, and he works with Fujitsu (Netherlands) as a Principal Business Consultant. Earlier, he was a Sr. Lead Architect, focusing on cloud and cloud native technology, at Fujitsu, and was later promoted to become the Head of Applications and Multi-Cloud Services. Jeroen is interested in the cloud technology, architecture for cloud infrastructure, serverless and container technology, application development, and digital transformation using various DevOps methodologies and tools. He has previously authored “Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance”, “Enterprise DevOps for Architects”, and “Transforming Healthcare with DevOps4Care”.
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Understanding the basic principles of SRE

In this section, we will briefly introduce SRE, originally invented by Google to overcome the problem of operations completely being swamped by all the new developments that Google launched. There are a lot of definitions of SRE, but in this book, we'll use the definition used by Google itself: the thing that happens if you allow a software engineer to design operations.

Basically, Google addressed the gap between development and operations. Developers changed code because of demand, while operations tried to avoid services breaking because of these changes. In other words, there was always some sort of tension between dev and ops teams. We will talk about this more in this chapter.

Now, is SRE the next-level DevOps? The answer to that question is: SRE forms a bridge between Dev and Ops. A logical, next question, in that case, would be: is a bridge necessary? In the next section, we will learn that putting developers and operations...

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Jeroen Mulder

Jeroen Mulder is a certified enterprise and security architect, and he works with Fujitsu (Netherlands) as a Principal Business Consultant. Earlier, he was a Sr. Lead Architect, focusing on cloud and cloud native technology, at Fujitsu, and was later promoted to become the Head of Applications and Multi-Cloud Services. Jeroen is interested in the cloud technology, architecture for cloud infrastructure, serverless and container technology, application development, and digital transformation using various DevOps methodologies and tools. He has previously authored “Multi-Cloud Architecture and Governance”, “Enterprise DevOps for Architects”, and “Transforming Healthcare with DevOps4Care”.
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