{"id":91,"date":"2008-06-11T19:56:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T23:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/newblog\/?p=91"},"modified":"2008-09-29T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T20:42:09","slug":"update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/?p=91","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

As most of you know, I started with Google<\/a> last week as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) [1]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Lots of people have asked how my first week went (and have usually thrown in either “I bet all you do is play pool and Rock Band all day” or “I bet they’re working you to death” – neither is true). I figured rather than answer everyone individually, I’ll just post about it.<\/p>\n

The short answer is that I am absolutely loving it. The people, the atmosphere, the attitude, the technology – it’s all fantastic! Without sounding like I got the proverbial chip-implant, Google is a great company to work for that really does put a lot of effort, time, and money into not being evil. That translates into a company that genuinely cares about its employees and coworkers who genuinely care about each other and the company. It’s a very unique and awesome place and I’m very happy.<\/p>\n

My first week, in addition to lots of fun, was also quite busy. I’m in a lot of training classes, and reading a lot of papers and documentation [2]<\/sup>. I’ve also opted to stay a bit late many nights because I find I can pick up a lot of info from chatting with people after dinner. And in these first few weeks I just want to absorb as much information as I can. Not only am I very excited to learn about the environment, but this is also very practical for me: I don’t yet have my stuff or my apartment, so I have lots of time to devote to learning. It may not sound like it, but this is all a lot of fun!<\/p>\n

In a few weeks my work schedule will probably normalize, but then I’ll be preparing to move into my new apartment. And then I’ll be actually moving. And then I’ll be setting up my new apartment. And then<\/strong> things should calm down a bit.<\/p>\n

\n1<\/sup> Wondering what an SRE is? I describe it as basically a senior sysadmin with skills in development, networking, system architecture, and a large understanding of your applications. For more details see a Engineering Reliability into Websites: Google SRE<\/a> (pdf) – or the Google conversion to HTML<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n2<\/sup> For those interested in the more technical stuff, unfortunately, I really can not talk about it. At all. And yes, I’m serious. I can<\/em> point you to some<\/a> public<\/a> papers<\/a> on some<\/a> of the technologies<\/a> we have developed and use which should give you some idea. Not all of these papers are as well known about as they should be, but they are in fact public (we also have<\/a> a lot<\/a> of code<\/a> we’ve released<\/a>: list<\/a>), and so I’m happy to point you to that stuff, which is really interesting (I know, because I’ve spent a lot of time reading it lately).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As most of you know, I started with Google last week as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) [1]. Lots of people have asked how my first week went (and have usually thrown in either “I bet all you do is play pool and Rock Band all day” or “I bet they’re working you to death” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91\/revisions\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phildev.net\/phil\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}