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Real-World SRE

You're reading from   Real-World SRE The Survival Guide for Responding to a System Outage and Maximizing Uptime

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788628884
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nat Welch Nat Welch
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Monitoring 3. Incident Response 4. Postmortems 5. Testing and Releasing 6. Capacity Planning 7. Building Tools 8. User Experience 9. Networking Foundations 10. Linux and Cloud Foundations Other Books You May Enjoy Index

ACM code of ethics

The final topic of our hierarchy is ethics. I am just going to touch on this briefly, but it is a very large topic like security or design, so please go and read about it. The Association for Computing Machinery has a code of ethics for software developers. It contains 24 rules for ethical software creation and working as a software developer.

There are many very interesting and important morals throughout the document, but my two favorites are near the front:

  • Avoid harm to others
  • Contribute to society and human well-being

These two rules are actually about UX. If you follow this code of ethics, you are saying that you will not write software that harms users and that your software will improve society. Design is often the aspect that determines whether a service meets these two needs. A good example comes from architecture, which also has a code of ethics. In their code, architects cannot design a structure with the purpose of harming people. To that end,...

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