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!
Get insights into the SRE role and its evolution, starting from Google’s original vision
Understand the key terms, such as golden signals, SLO, SLI, MTBF, MTTR, and MTTD
Overcome the challenges in adopting site reliability engineering
Employ reliable architecture and deployments with serverless, containerization, and release strategies
Identify monitoring targets and determine observability strategy
Reduce toil and leverage root cause analysis to enhance efficiency and reliability
Realize how business decisions can impact quality and reliability