Real-World SRE

The Survival Guide for Responding to a System Outage and Maximizing Uptime

By Nat Welch

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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.

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Monitoring
  3. Incident Response
  4. Postmortems
  5. Testing & Releasing
  6. Capacity Planning
  7. Building Tools
  8. User Experience
  9. Networking Foundations
  10. Linux And Cloud Foundations