The world of Information Technology and software development often conflates DevOps with SRE to mean one and the same thing. However, there are vast differences between the two. While Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has gained traction in recent years, DevOps has been around much longer (even before the term DevOps existed).

To put it simply, DevOps and SRE are both practices put in place to deliver software faster. The only difference between the two is in their approaches; DevOps is focused on reducing the software development lifecycle, and SRE concentrates on eliminating system weaknesses to achieve the same purpose.

In this article, we will look at the fundamental ways in which DevOps and SRE differ from each other. Before we do that, let’s start with understanding what DevOps and SRE are.

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