Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems

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!

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Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems

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!

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Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems

Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems

by Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami
Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems
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Becoming a Rockstar SRE: Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems

by Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami

Overview

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!

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781804614563
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Publication date: 04/28/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 420
File size: 8 MB

About the Author

Jeremy Proffitt is passionate about solving problems with an unmatched sense of urgency - the definition of a Site Reliability Engineer. A master of solutions and technology knowledge, Jeremy is a rockstar SRE with AWS Professional Certifications in Architecture and DevOps. He has routinely saved millions in potential lost revenue in his career. In his free time, Jeremy enjoys sending time in his rockstar-appropriate man cave and loves venturing into 3D printing, electronics, and Internet of Things (IoT) projects. Jeremy currently manages a team of top SRE and DevOps talent, driving constant improvement, and is often cited in the company as a visionary of observability and emergency response.
Rod Anami is a seasoned engineer who works with cloud infrastructure and software engineering technologies. As one of the SREs at the Kyndryl CoE, he coaches other SREs on running IT modernization, transformation, and automation projects for clients worldwide. Rod leads the global SRE guild inside Kyndryl, where he helps plant and grow SRE chapters in many countries. Rod is certified as an SRE, technical specialist, and DevOps engineer professional at the ultimate level. He holds AWS, HashiCorp, Azure, and Kubernetes certifications, among many others. He is passionate about contributing to open source software at large with Node.js libraries.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
  1. SRE Job Role – Activities and Responsibilities
  2. Fundamental Numbers – Reliability Statistics
  3. Imperfect Habits – Duct Tape Architecture and Spaghetti Code
  4. Essential Observability – Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces (MELT)
  5. Resolution Path – Master Troubleshooting
  6. Operational Framework – Managing Infrastructure and Systems
  7. Data Consumed – Observability Data Science
  8. Reliable Architecture – Systems Strategy and Design
  9. Valued Automation – Toil Discovery and Elimination
  10. Exposing Pipelines – GitOps and Testing Essentials
  11. Worker Bees – Orchestrations of Serverless, Containers, and Kubernetes
  12. Final Exam – Tests and Capacity Planning
  13. First Thing – Runbooks and Low Noise Outage Notifications
  14. Rapid Response – Outage Management Techniques
  15. Postmortem Candor – Long-Term Resolution
  16. Chaos Injector – Advanced Systems Stability
  17. Interview Advice – Hiring and Being Hired
  18. Appendix A The Site Reliability Engineer Manifesto
  19. Appendix B The 12-Factor App Questionnaire
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