Site Reliability Engineering
How Google Runs Production Systems

Much of the information on running production systems effectively from Google has been extremely important to how I have changed my thinking about the SRE role over the years—finally, there's one piece that has all of what was previously something you'd had to look long and hard for in various talks......more

Site Reliability Engineering, or Google's claim to fame re: technology and concepts developed more than a decade ago by the grid computing community, is a collection of essays on the design and operation of large-scale datacenters, with the goal of making them simultaneously scalable, robust, and ef......more

Very uneven. Exactly what you should expect of a book in which is chapter is a separate essay written by a separate group of people :) Chapters can be grouped into following categories: a* solid knowledge, not really fascinating, but useful, some Google inside stories b* fairly solid knowledge, boring......more

I have so many bookmarks in this book and consider it an invaluable read. While not every project / company needs to operate at Google scale, it helps streamlining the process to define SLO / SLAs for the occasion and establishing communication channels and practices to achieve them. It helped me wra......more

I don’t normally buy paper books, which means that in the course of the last few years I’ve bought only one paper book even though I’ve read hundreds of books during that period of time. This book is the second one I’ve bought so far, which means a lot to me. Not mentioning that Google is providing......more