97 Things Every SRE Should Know (Paperback)

Emil Stolarsky

ISBN 10: 1492081493 / ISBN 13: 9781492081494

Published by O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol, 2020

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Paperback. When your system goes down, every minute means lost business and angry customers venting frustration on social media. You may be at wits' end, wishing you knew more about the problem. Enter site reliability engineering (SRE). This practical book takes you through actionable advice on a wide range of topics including how to adopt SRE, where DevOps and SRE overlap, and how monitoring and observability differ. Editors Jaime Woo and Emil Stolarsky, cofounders of Incident Labs, have collected 97 concise and useful tips from various colleagues and fellow professionals to help you expand your SRE skills through trusted best practices and new approaches to knotty problems. You'll hone your SRE skills through sound advice, including how to ask thought-provoking questions that will drive the direction of the field. Learn how SRE relates to concepts including DevOps and resilience engineering Assess how SRE is implemented across companies of different sizes Implement foundational concepts of SRE, including SLOs, error budgets, incident response, game days, and post-mortems Build and scale an SRE team for your organization's changing needs Evaluate the progress of SRE adoption and strategies and relate them back to stakeholders" Site reliability engineering (SRE) is more relevant than ever. Knowing how to keep systems reliable has become a critical skill. With this practical book, newcomers and old hats alike will explore a broad range of conversations happening in SRE. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: 97 Things Every SRE Should Know (Paperback)
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Sebastopol
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1492081493
• ISBN 13: 9781492081494
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Site reliability engineering (SRE) is more relevant than ever. Knowing how to keep systems reliable has become a critical skill. With this practical book, newcomers and old hats alike will explore a broad range of conversations happening in SRE. You'll get actionable advice on several topics, including how to adopt SRE, why SLOs matter, when you need to upgrade your incident response, and how monitoring and observability differ.

Editors Jaime Woo and Emil Stolarsky, co-founders of Incident Labs, have collected 97 concise and useful tips from across the industry, including trusted best practices and new approaches to knotty problems. You'll grow and refine your SRE skills through sound advice and thought-provoking questions that drive the direction of the field.

Some of the 97 things you should know:

• "Test Your Disaster Plan"--Tanya Reilly
• "Integrating Empathy into SRE Tools"--Daniella Niyonkuru
• "The Best Advice I Can Give to Teams"--Nicole Forsgren
• "Where to SRE"--Fatema Boxwala
• "Facing That First Page"--Andrew Louis
• "I Have an Error Budget, Now What?"--Alex Hidalgo
• "Get Your Work Recognized: Write a Brag Document"--Julia Evans and Karla Burnett

About the Authors

Emil Stolarsky is a site reliability engineer, who previously worked on caching, performance, & disaster recovery at Shopify and the internal Kubernetes platform at DigitalOcean. He is the program co-chair for SREcon EMEA 2019 and SREcon Americas West 2020, and contributed a chapter to the O’Reilly book “Seeking SRE.”

Jaime Woo is an award-nominated writer, and is a frequent speaker at SREcon EMEA, Americas West, and Americas East. He spent three years as a molecular biologist, before working at DigitalOcean, Riot, and Shopify, where he launched the engineering communications function.