This hands-on survival manual will give you the tools to confidently prepare for and respond to a system outage.

Key Features

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

Book DescriptionReal-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.

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

Who this book is forReal-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.