What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction, explores the relatively new SRE field and outlines the practical framework of the book.

Chapter 2, Monitoring, talks about the tools and methodologies used when monitoring. After this chapter, a good experiment for you would be to set up monitoring on services, even if they are just fake services written for testing, and see if you can see how they change over time.

Chapter 3, Incident Response, explains how to respond to outages, and preparing your team for the worst. We also focus on setting up on-call rotations best practices around working together as a team and on building processes to make incidents as low stress as possible.

Chapter 4, Postmortems, takes you through the act of writing a postmortem and promoting reviews for yourself, your team, and your organization. We talk about data to collect, along with communication and how to track future work.

Chapter 5, Testing and Releasing, reviews common practices around testing and releasing.

Chapter 6, Capacity Planning, goes over some of the basics of finance and talks about how to build a plan for your infrastructure growth over time.

Chapter 7, Building Tools, discusses how to write software in a role focused on responsiveness. We also explore how to find new projects to work on, how to define those projects, and how to plan them. We then talk about execution and the long-term maintenance of software and how to be reflective on the work you have done.

Chapter 8, User Experience, gives an overview of the basics of user experience and user testing. We also talk about security and performance budgets.

Chapter 9, Networking Foundations, helps you to dive into the basics of networking.

Chapter 10, Linux and Cloud Foundations, covers the basics of Linux and common cloud services.