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Where SRE and platform engineering need an explicit handoff
Define where platform responsibilities meet service reliability.
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Work through infrastructure, capacity, deployment and ownership decisions behind dependable services.
Understand the platform
How containers and Kubernetes turn an image into a service
Examine process packaging, orchestration and application responsibilities.
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Kubernetes disruption budgets during GPU maintenance
Work through a node drain and the capacity checks around it.
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What a canary deployment actually tests
Review traffic selection, promotion criteria and rollback compatibility.
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