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Becoming a Rockstar SRE

By : Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami
Book Image

Becoming a Rockstar SRE

By: Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami

Overview of this book

Site reliability engineering is all about continuous improvement, finding the balance between business and product demands while working within technological limitations to drive higher revenue. But quantifying and understanding reliability, handling resources, and meeting developer requirements can sometimes be overwhelming. With a focus on reliability from an infrastructure and coding perspective, Becoming a Rockstar SRE brings forth the site reliability engineer (SRE) persona using real-world examples. This book will acquaint you the role of an SRE, followed by the why and how of site reliability engineering. It walks you through the jobs of an SRE, from the automation of CI/CD pipelines and reducing toil to reliability best practices. You’ll learn what creates bad code and how to circumvent it with reliable design and patterns. The book also guides you through interacting and negotiating with businesses and vendors on various technical matters and exploring observability, outages, and why and how to craft an excellent runbook. Finally, you’ll learn how to elevate your site reliability engineering career, including certifications and interview tips and questions. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to identify and measure reliability, reduce downtime, troubleshoot outages, and enhance productivity to become a true rockstar SRE!
Table of Contents (27 chapters)
1
Part 1 - Understanding the Basics of Who, What, and Why
5
Part 2 - Implementing Observability for Site Reliability Engineering
10
Part 3 - Applying Architecture for Reliability
16
Part 4 - Mastering the Outage Moments
20
Part 5 - Looking into Future Trends and Preparing for SRE Interviews

Part 1 - Understanding the Basics of Who, What, and Why

In this first part, you will learn about site reliability engineering, its roots, and current usage outside Google. We emphasize how the site reliability engineer (SRE) persona is the center of gravity of everything orbiting systems reliability. When we talk about site reliability engineering, it’s impossible to do so without a discussion about the business of software development, which we tie into not only statistics used for reliability but how those impact what companies are ultimately interested in, customer satisfaction and revenue. Finally, we’ll explore why the lack of reliability persists in organizations and discuss some of the lesser known truths that make site reliability engineering critical and complex.

The following chapters will be covered in this section:

  • Chapter 1, SRE Job Role – Activities and Responsibilities
  • Chapter 2, Fundamental Numbers – Reliability Statistics
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