Real-World SRE: The Survival Guide for Responding to a System Outage and Maximizing Uptime

Nat Welch

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Paperback Aug 2018 340 pages 1st Edition

Nat Welch

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Proven methods for keeping your website running
A survival guide for incident response
Written by an ex-Google SRE expert

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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.

Who is this book for?

Real-World SRE is aimed at software developers facing a website crisis, or who want to improve the reliability of their company's software. Newcomers to Site Reliability Engineering looking to succeed at interview will also find this invaluable.

What you will learn

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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Christos Perivolaropoulos Sep 10, 2018

a great book that covers with details the ground from beginner to competent SRE. This is not only useful for SREs but anyone either working closely with SREs. My favorite chapter would be chapter 2 (monitoring) which goes over the more recent jargon and tools that SREs use that you will not find in a UNIX programming book.I also enjoyed chapter 9 about networking fundamentals. It explains in detail the way the internet works, but not enough detail to overwhelm the reader. Throughout the book, but especially on this chapter, the writer manages to keep the theoretical aspects grounded on practice by providing ways for the reader to test their knowledge with simple tools and techniques.I would recommend this book without hesitation.

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.

Aaron Sep 19, 2018

Most of the technical books I’ve read tend to fall into one of two categories. The first is a overview of the technical details that covers everything you’d like to know but is really dry. The other is a glorified autobiography of the author’s experience providing little technical information that can be found beyond a Wikipedia page. This book defies the odds and succeeds at providing a great level of technical detail while being an inherently easy to read. I certainly did not intend to finish half of it in one sitting, ignoring everything else I needed to do, but I did.What I like most about the book is that each major element of SRE isn’t just thrown out there as a fact. Nat introduces each topic follows it up with an explanation as to why each element is important and provides a story that shows why each major element is important. This style of writing is not only easily to read but it helps me retain It as well as having a concrete use case.Full disclosure: I’ve known Nat since high school so I received a review copy for free. But since we had no issues making fun of each other back in school I’d certainly have no problem calling him out if this book was bad.

Alicja Raszkowska Oct 17, 2018

This book sets up a framework for SRE supported by real-life examples and experiences. It focuses not only on the positive side, but also emphasizes continuous improvement of SRE tools and processes, as well as engineer skills and happiness. It's full of examples and use cases that present the perspective of companies of all sizes and priorities. I thought I was a complete SRE newbie when I started reading it and I was surprised how many of the outlined strategies followed best practices and common sense I was already familiar with.I especially liked Nat's focus on communication - positive, encouraging, teamwork-driven culture that automates the boring parts of the job and gives space for growing in other areas. Building tools and thinking about user experience, especially for users we might never meet or get feedback from, shows the long-term focus on delivering quality products. Nat never shies away from sharing lessons learned from past experiences.I think this book is a good introduction to SRE both on a detail-oriented level of building a system of alerts, metrics and schedules, as well as understanding the bigger picture and impact it can have on the whole team and company. There are certain parts of it I wouldn't expect to show up in such a technical read, e.g. examples of how to have a growth-mindset as an SRE expert.I throughly enjoyed this book - the only caveat I experienced was that the code samples don't have syntax highlighting, so it was hard to parse them in longer snippets.

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Managing and maintaining monitoring data

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