There is a story about a motorist stopping in the Irish countryside and asking for directions ... "I would nae start from here if I were you" being the reply.
companies SRE efforts range from world leading to fiscally irresponsible- and revealing the latter to the world will be actionable - against the "whistle blower" and yourself (publisher).
Wikileaks looks like it does to protect against that. (partially)
So you can either look like wikileaks, and have a genuine survey of current state of play, or you can have a "this is how we did awesome SRE at the tiny portion of the big co I was employed by" talks.
I don't have an answer if you are in the irish countryside and want to start from somewhere else.
If I had to make a wild guess, I'd say companies that are seriously willing to engage in real SRE are probably also open enough to have a "How we did it" chapter written. At least in the Fortune 500 world where I live, companies aren't into pretending they don't suck, generally.
And the companies that are likely to be jerks about it are unlikely to be doing interesting SRE work. I'd like stories of hard-won success (or cautionary tales of failure), not just ranting about how much Company X sucks and how broken they are.
Exactly. Most companies are willing to advertise their wins and lessons learned because it means they grew. If they don't have wins yet, they can use the wiki to work on their process and eventually contribute back what works. And I'm sure there's lots of existing companies who have gone through all of that (several of which are in the SRE workbook)
Fortune 500 companies are vast agglomerations of different companies, fiefdoms, practises and teams. The same company could hold world leading teams and teams making every mistake going.
And the legal department will be jerks if the latter get the spotlight.
companies SRE efforts range from world leading to fiscally irresponsible- and revealing the latter to the world will be actionable - against the "whistle blower" and yourself (publisher).
Wikileaks looks like it does to protect against that. (partially)
So you can either look like wikileaks, and have a genuine survey of current state of play, or you can have a "this is how we did awesome SRE at the tiny portion of the big co I was employed by" talks.
I don't have an answer if you are in the irish countryside and want to start from somewhere else.
That would be a question worth answering