It's easy to get discouraged reading books about industry best practices that say things like "always test in prod!" and "10 deploys a day!!" At times, they can make the goal of being a high-functioning DevOps organization feel out-of-reach for large enterprises, where changes to the way we operate take time to roll out. A few years ago, Vanguard started its journey to adopting Site Reliability Engineering across the IT organization, and that transformation effort is still underway today.

In this talk, we will share where we started, how far we've come since then, and all of the steps we've taken along the way, as we've worked to evangelize changes to the way we measure availability, enable experimentation, leverage highly-available architecture patterns, and learn from failure.