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Real-World SRE

By : Nat Welch
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Real-World SRE

By: Nat Welch

Overview of this book

Real-World SRE is the go-to survival guide for the software developer in the middle of catastrophic website failure. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has emerged on the frontline as businesses strive to maximize uptime. This book is a step-by-step framework to follow when your website is down and the countdown is on to fix it. Nat Welch has battle-hardened experience in reliability engineering at some of the biggest outage-sensitive companies on the internet. Arm yourself with his tried-and-tested methods for monitoring modern web services, setting up alerts, and evaluating your incident response. Real-World SRE goes beyond just reacting to disaster—uncover the tools and strategies needed to safely test and release software, plan for long-term growth, and foresee future bottlenecks. Real-World SRE gives you the capability to set up your own robust plan of action to see you through a company-wide website crisis. The final chapter of Real-World SRE is dedicated to acing SRE interviews, either in getting a first job or a valued promotion.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Summary


In this chapter, we talked about incidents, incident response, and alerting. We focused on figuring out when to alert, who to alert, and how to alert. We then talked about what to do once you have acknowledged an alert. We discussed how to communicate and then how to finally close the incident with an all clear message.

Having proper incident response set up will help your team to shorten the amount of time it takes to resolve incidents and promote a level of competence to the rest of the company. Your team will be able to show that it knows how to respond when things are bad, and keep its cool and bring the system back to a healthy state.

In the next chapter, we will talk about postmortems. Postmortems are the act of documenting and looking back at the work you did, and working as a team to reduce future incidents.