For most of March, I worked from Taiwan which was 8 hours ahead of our main office. So basically uninterrupted quiet focus time working from coffee shops. What did I do? doc fixes, PoCs, solidifying production services (mostly metrics). Oh and the open source PRs I sent on my flight out, got accepted on my flight back.
What about April? I think the result of planning was: fedramp. In practice, everyone tries to avoid the work, so more productionizing of protoduction POCs (scaling, config tuning), refactoring to shift load, and reduce duplication.
Things I managed to write:
While my title remains SRE, I can't help but feel like half the stuff I do lands more in the realm of the rest of our infra group (cloud platforms, developer experience).