Practical guidance for getting started as a Site Reliability Engineer

The text provides practical guidance for getting started as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at a new company, especially when starting with little context about the company's systems and infrastructure. It emphasizes the importance of understanding the current setup, talking to various stakeholders, keeping an eye on customer feedback, seeking external validation for ideas, and creating a roadmap based on common themes from diverse inputs. The suggested roadmap includes improving compute, database, and observability aspects of the system.