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Becoming a Rockstar SRE

You're reading from Becoming a Rockstar SRE Electrify your site reliability engineering mindset to build reliable, resilient, and efficient systems

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803239224

Length 420 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Argo CD

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (2):

Jeremy Proffitt

Rod Anami L. Anami

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 - Understanding the Basics of Who, What, and Why

2. Chapter 1: SRE Job Role – Activities and Responsibilities FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Fundamental Numbers – Reliability Statistics

4. Chapter 3: Imperfect Habits – Duct Tape Architecture and Spaghetti Code

5. Part 2 - Implementing Observability for Site Reliability Engineering

6. Chapter 4: Essential Observability – Metrics, Events, Logs, and Traces (MELT)

7. Chapter 5: Resolution Path – Master Troubleshooting

8. Chapter 6: Operational Framework – Managing Infrastructure and Systems

9. Chapter 7: Data Consumed – Observability Data Science

10. Part 3 - Applying Architecture for Reliability

11. Chapter 8: Reliable Architecture – Systems Strategy and Design

12. Chapter 9: Valued Automation – Toil Discovery and Elimination

13. Chapter 10: Exposing Pipelines – GitOps and Testing Essentials

14. Chapter 11: Worker Bees – Orchestrations of Serverless, Containers, and Kubernetes

15. Chapter 12: Final Exam – Tests and Capacity Planning

16. Part 4 - Mastering the Outage Moments

17. Chapter 13: First Thing – Runbooks and Low Noise Outage Notifications

18. Chapter 14: Rapid Response – Outage Management Techniques

19. Chapter 15: Postmortem Candor – Long-Term Resolution

20. Part 5 - Looking into Future Trends and Preparing for SRE Interviews

21. Chapter 16: Chaos Injector – Advanced Systems Stability

22. Chapter 17: Interview Advice – Hiring and Being Hired

23. Index

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24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix A – The Site Reliability Engineer Manifesto

1. Appendix B – The 12-Factor App Questionnaire

Resolution

Adjusting the method in which our application layer scales out and increases both the capacity of the database and application tiers resolved the issue.

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Authors (2)

Jeremy Proffitt

Jeremy Proffitt

Jeremy Proffitt (born January 1977) is obsessed with constantly improving systems and solving problems with an unmatched sense of urgency – the definition of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). A master of solutions and technological knowledge, Jeremy is a rockstar SRE with AWS professional certifications in Architecture and DevOps – and has routinely saved millions in potential lost revenue in his career. In his free time, Jeremy enjoys spending time in his rockstar-appropriate technology cave and loves venturing into 3D printing, electronics, and Internet of Things (IoT) projects. By day, Jeremy currently manages a team of top SRE and DevOps talent driving constant improvement and is often cited in the company as a visionary in terms of observability and emergency response.

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Rod Anami L. Anami

Rod Anami L. Anami

Rod Anami is a seasoned engineer who works with cloud infrastructure and software engineering technologies. As one of the SREs at the Kyndryl CoE, he coaches other SREs on running IT modernization, transformation, and automation projects for clients worldwide. Rod leads the global SRE guild inside Kyndryl, where he helps plant and grow SRE chapters in many countries. Rod is certified as an SRE, technical specialist, and DevOps engineer professional at the ultimate level. He holds AWS, HashiCorp, Azure, and Kubernetes certifications, among many others. He is passionate about contributing to open source software at large with Node.js libraries.

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