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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

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Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. For example: "This creates an instance of the StatsD class to talk to a StatsD server that is running on port 9125 on the local machine."

A block of code is set as follows:

    "hello world"
  end
end

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

    "hello world"
  end
end

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

$ curl google.com

Bold: indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes also appear in the text like this. For example: "A Service Level Indicator (SLI) is a possible most important metric for the business."

Note

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