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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. The final chapter of Real-World SRE is dedicated to acing SRE interviews, either in getting a first job or a valued promotion.

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Monitor for approaching catastrophic failure

Alert your team to an outage emergency

Dissect your incident response strategies

Test automation tools and build your own software

Predict bottlenecks and fight for user experience

Eliminate the competition in an SRE interview

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andrew drozdov Oct 11, 2018

An easy to follow playbook with some insightful gems. Nat's book should be required reading for devops engineers and benefits anyone that is building or maintaining software. If you want to learn a lot about the headaches of building software and how to handle them (simulating years of experience), then this book is for you.

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Prentice Sep 19, 2018

While there is certainly already a book on SRE describing how Google runs their production systems, it can be a challenge to map their practices to your own system if they are not running at Google-scale. Nat has written a book that draws from his experiences as a SRE at Google along with his experiences at a variety of other companies operating at varying scales and budgets. His book is a well organized guide to SRE which is complete with many concrete examples of how to utilize readily available tooling and apply it to systems of all sizes.This book has something for everyone, from someone interested in making their personal site more resilient to an engineer on an SRE team who is responsible for large scale production systems. I highly recommend this book.

Ben Sweedler Nov 17, 2018

I went to university with the author, and picked up this book as a crash course in his field. I assumed Real-World SRE would be about expensive technology, dire consequences, and the drive for 99.9999% uptime.Turns out, reliability in the real world is:1. Identifying problems2. Learning to fix them3. Growing from the processAny developer can benefit from this book. The technical sections are paired with functional advice about how to manage time, energy, and expectations. Because of this, I found it surprisingly relevant to my work as a frontend developer.The topics I enjoyed the most were:1. A deep dive into the inner workings of HTTP2. UX design advice for admin dashboards3. How to share knowledge between departments.This book convinced me that everyone (even the frontend team) should know where the backups are located. Who would've guessed that communication was the trick to reliability!

Natalia Nov 07, 2018

Welch does a fantastic job describing the area of SRE. As the title suggests, he ties in much of his personal experience to explain the details of this field. The book covers a breath of topics, touching SRE for many different levels of scale. It is an easy read with a lot of useful information. I would highly recommend this book.

Customer Oct 11, 2018

This book really succeeds in covering the baselines of what you need to know for applying SRE to your organization, at a reasonable level. That is, Welch explicitly mentions multiple times in the book about scaling efforts to what makes sense for your company -- because in tech publishing, it's easy to act like everyone is Google, but we aren't. I learned something in every chapter, and I really appreciate the inclusion of UX and the "bonus" (to me) chapters on linux fundamentals. A great book for someone who needs to do SRE but doesn't come from an ops background.

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