In this episode of the SREpath Podcast, Ash Patel interviews two SRE managers from Booking.com, Samuele and Yoann, to gain insights into their experiences and strategies for developing a successful SRE practice within a large organization.

Yoann is a senior manager responsible for managing SRE teams and serves as the SRE Craft lead. Samuele is an SRE engineering manager working in the Big Data department and manages a team of eight to nine people.

Yoann officially began his journey in SRE in 2017, transitioning from a consultancy role to an engineer focused on reliability.

Samuele's background included network engineering and DevOps roles before he joined Booking.com in 2018 as an SRE.

Booking.com initially didn't have SREs but started adopting SRE practices in 2017 as they transitioned from a monolithic architecture to microservices.

The SRE team at Booking.com grew from around 20-30 members to nearly 200, with various teams handling infrastructure, central roles, and embedded roles with product teams. Learn more about the challenges they faced and tackled by listening to the episode.

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