Applying principles of SRE to multi-cloud – building and operating distributed systems

This book exists because a majority of enterprises are moving or developing systems in cloud environments. One reason to do this can be cost efficiency, but the main reason is likely because companies benefit from the agility and speed that the cloud offers. That is driven by customers: their demands are getting higher. Customers and users want more functionality in applications and above all, demand stability in applications. They perceive IT as water from the tap: it's always there. Companies have to make big efforts in making systems reliable, yet able to develop quickly.

Today's enterprises are in a constant transformation mode. This also means a big change for operations. To put it simply, they have to keep up with the speed of change. Traditional operations can't handle this. There has to be a seamless collaboration between developers and operations, DevOps.

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