Google SRE Book
Official docs outline
12 sections- Introduction
SRE philosophy and the role of an SRE.
- Embracing risk
Risk tolerance and error budgets.
- Service level objectives
SLIs, SLOs and SLAs and how to choose them.
- Eliminating toil
Defining and reducing toil.
- Monitoring distributed systems
Four golden signals, symptoms vs causes.
- Release engineering
Hermetic builds and release philosophy.
- Handling overload
Load shedding and graceful degradation.
- Addressing cascading failures
Causes and prevention of cascading failures.
- Managing incidents
Incident command roles and communication.
- Postmortem culture
Blameless postmortems.
- Implementing SLOs (SRE Workbook)
Practical SLO adoption.
- Alerting on SLOs (SRE Workbook)
Burn rate alerts and multi-window alerting.
Each section links to the official page. Titles and summaries by Extra Credit; the docs belong to their authors.
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- OCI Distribution Specification
- OCI Image Format Specification
- OCI Runtime Specification
- OpenMetrics Specification
- OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP)
- OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions
- OpenTelemetry Specification
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