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Google SRE Book

Official docs outline

12 sections
  1. Introduction

    SRE philosophy and the role of an SRE.

  2. Embracing risk

    Risk tolerance and error budgets.

  3. Service level objectives

    SLIs, SLOs and SLAs and how to choose them.

  4. Eliminating toil

    Defining and reducing toil.

  5. Monitoring distributed systems

    Four golden signals, symptoms vs causes.

  6. Release engineering

    Hermetic builds and release philosophy.

  7. Handling overload

    Load shedding and graceful degradation.

  8. Addressing cascading failures

    Causes and prevention of cascading failures.

  9. Managing incidents

    Incident command roles and communication.

  10. Postmortem culture

    Blameless postmortems.

  11. Implementing SLOs (SRE Workbook)

    Practical SLO adoption.

  12. Alerting on SLOs (SRE Workbook)

    Burn rate alerts and multi-window alerting.

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