The Future of SRE: Trends, Tools, and Techniques for the Next Decade

Jayanna Hallur

Abstract: The field of site reliability engineering is in a dynamic state due to technological changes such as cloud computing, automation, artificial intelligence, and complex structures. This paper focuses on modern trends, instruments, and strategies that are predicted to define the future of SRE in the coming decade. Focus areas regard the use of AI and ML for predictive maintenance, AI and automation in incident management, increasing the role of platform engineering, and increasing relevance of observability and security in distributed systems. In furtherance, the paper will also explore the new trend of more preventative - mindedness regarding reliability, the integration of the development and operation team more efficiently, and the contribution of open - source technology to faster development. Studying these trends allows this paper to offer a forecast of SRE practices? development to respond to the demand for more robust, elastic, and high - performing systems.

Keywords: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Automation, AI/ML in SRE, Predictive Maintenance, Incident Management, Observability, Distributed Systems, Scalability