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Real-World SRE

By : Pavlos Ratis, Nat Welch
Book Image

Real-World SRE

By: Pavlos Ratis, 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 (16 chapters)
Real-World SRE
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Summary


We covered a lot in this chapter! We talked about various types of testing—the differences between unit tests, integration tests, and many others. We covered a few tools you can use to help with those tests and also how to think about what to test.

We focused on releasing code and validating those releases, before touching on canaries, blue/green releases, when to release, and what makes a good release. We also discussed automating both your testing and release processes. Finally, we looked at the different terminology people use in this space and things to think about when coming up with a workflow for your organization.

In the next chapter, we will be talking about capacity planning and how to grow your infrastructure over time.