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Becoming a Rockstar SRE

From understanding architecture, observability, and outage management to what makes solutions unreliable, this book is the first of its kind to redefine the world of SRE to make you a Rockstar! This book will empower you to bring real impact to your organization and lead the reliability revolution.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

14h

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

This book is for IT professionals, including developers looking to advance into an SRE role, system administrators mastering technologies, and executives experiencing repeated downtime in their organizations. Anyone interested in bringing reliability and automation to their organization to drive down customer impact and revenue loss while increasing development throughput will find this book useful. A basic understanding of API and web architecture and some experience with cloud computing and services will assist with understanding the concepts covered.

Book content

chapters 14h total length

SRE Job Role – Activities and Responsibilities

Fundamental Numbers – Reliability Statistics

Imperfect Habits – Duct Tape Architecture and Spaghetti Code

Essential Observability – Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces (MELT)

Resolution Path – Master Troubleshooting

Operational Framework – Managing Infrastructure and Systems

Data Consumed – Observability Data Science

Reliable Architecture – Systems Strategy and Design

Valued Automation – Toil Discovery and Elimination

Exposing Pipelines – GitOps and Testing Essentials

Worker Bees – Orchestrations of Serverless, Containers, and Kubernetes

Final Exam – Tests and Capacity Planning

First Thing – Runbooks and Low Noise Outage Notifications

Rapid Response – Outage Management Techniques

Postmortem Candor – Long-Term Resolution

Chaos Injector – Advanced Systems Stability

Interview Advice – Hiring and Being Hired

Appendix A The Site Reliability Engineer Manifesto

Appendix B The 12-Factor App Questionnaire

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