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What Is Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) a discipline that applies software engineering principles to IT operations, focusing on creating scalable and highly reliable systems through automation, monitoring, and defined error budgets. ## Why This Matters for Your Business SRE bridges the gap between development velocity and operational stability. Instead of choosing between shipping features quickly and keeping systems reliable, SRE provides frameworks like error budgets and toil reduction that let you do both — essential as businesses depend more on always-on digital services. ## Looking for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) consulting? See how Griffin IT Group delivers site reliability engineering (sre) as part of our Enterprise Technology Operations Centre. We provide hands-on implementation, ongoing management, and expert consulting for businesses across the Niagara Region and GTA. 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