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.
Becoming a Rockstar SRE
- About Book
- Who Is This Book For?
- Book Content
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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