Site Reliability Engineering and performance testing with Stephen Townshend (k6 Office Hours #32)

Site Reliability Engineering and performance testing with Stephen Townshend (k6 Office Hours #32)

k6
Oct 23, 2021

What's the difference between Site Reliability Engineering and performance testing? SRE and performance testing/engineering have a lot of overlap. Where does performance testing end and SRE begin? And what does this mean for people in those roles? To discuss this topic, we have three people with varying areas of expertise: Nicole van der Hoeven (k6) is a performance engineer, Stephen Townshend (IAG) has recently changed careers from performance to SRE, and Daniel González Lopes (k6) is an SRE who learned about performance testing when he joined k6.

Resources mentioned during the show:
Stephen's Performance Time podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/7wOCHzZBCzOi071QuDPodI
Katacoda: https://www.katacoda.com/
Pluralsight: https://www.pluralsight.com/
The Twelve-Factor App: https://12factor.net/
The blog post that Stephen mentioned, about slack: https://fs.blog/2021/05/slack/

More k6 Office Hours: https://www.youtube.com/playlist

Daniel on Twitter: https://twitter.com/dgzlopes
Stephen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephentownshend/
Nicole on Twitter: https://twitter.com/n_vanderhoeven

Learn more about k6:
Website: https://k6.io
Repo: https://github.com/loadimpact/k6