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SREs became a thing because management realized the DevOps mindset of making your programmers DBAs and sys admins wasn't really working but management were too ashamed to admit they were wrong so they invented a new term.
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Well, to be fair, having separate DBAs and sysadmins wasn’t working either.
Mainly because they kept telling the developers "No". SREs just do that at scale.