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Google’s SRE guide recommends building on-call skills through structured learning, targeted project ownership and practical exercises, rather than throwing new engineers in at the deep end.
Why it mattersThe guide points to postmortem analysis and disaster role-playing as ways to practise problem-solving before an incident makes the lesson unusually memorable. For teams bringing new site reliability engineers up to speed, that is a useful case for deliberate training over sink-or-swim onboarding.
Discuss: Should new SREs take on-call duties only after structured practice, or is supervised experience during real incidents the better teacher?
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