Resources

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• Chat
• Twitter
• Vendor supplied material
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Books

• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
• The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE
• The Practice Of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems
• Web Operations - Keeping the Data On Time
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
• Microservices in Production - Standard Principles and Requirements
• Production-Ready Microservices - Building Standardized Systems Across an Engineering Organization
• Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud [Sample chapter titled CPUs]
• Monitoring Distributed Systems: Case Studies from Google’s SRE Teams
• The Human Side of Postmortems: Managing Stress and Cognitive Biases
• Chaos Engineering: Building Confidence in System Behavior through Experiment
• Post-Incident Reviews: Learning from Failure for Improved Incident Responses
• Antifragile Systems and Teams
• How to Monitoring the SRE Golden Signals (E-Book)
• Incident Management for Operations
• Distributed Systems Observability
• Real-World SRE
• Seeking SRE

Organization and Culture

• Rakyll on the SRE model

Education

• From Zero to Hero: Recommended Practices for Training your Ever-Evolving SRE Teams
• The Systems Engineering Side of Site Reliability Engineering
• Incident Management Training: Wheel of Misfortune

Hiring

• SRE Hiring

Reliability

• Google: A Collection Of Best Practices For Production Services
• Canary Analysis Service
• Tips for High Availability
• Progressive Service Architecture At Auth0
• Designing reliable systems with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Next ‘17)

Monitoring and Alerting

• The Many Ways Your Monitoring Is Lying to You
• Debugging Latency in Go 1.11
• Monitoring in the time of Cloud Native
• Monitoring Isn’t Observability
• How to Monitor the SRE Golden Signals
• Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way you Think
• The 4 Golden Signals of API Health and Performance in Cloud-Native Applications

On-Call

• PagerDuty Incident Response Handbook
• How to write a status page update
• Sustainable On-Call
• Moving Past Shallow Incident Data
• Understanding The Role Of The Incident Manager On-Call (IMOC)
• The On-Call Handbook
• Being an On-Call Engineer: A Google SRE Perspective

Post-Mortem

• A collection of post-mortems
• Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
• Postmortem Action Items: Plan the Work and Work the Plan
• How to write an Incident Report / Postmortem

Capacity Planning

• Capacity Planning
• SouthBay SRE: Cloud Capacity Planning

SLO’s, SLA’s, and SLI’s

• SRE fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs
• Understanding error budget overspend - part one - CRE life lessons
• Good housekeeping for error budgets - part two - CRE life lessons

Performance

• Performance Checklists for SREs
• Software Performance Analysis Guided By SLOs

Programming

• Go Language for Ops and Site Reliability Engineering
• Go for SREs using Python
• Operability in Go
• Go Reliability and Durability at Dropbox

Blogs

• Brendan Gregg’s Blog - Highly Techincal Blog Posts About Systems Internals, Performance and SRE.
• Everything Sysadmin - Blog Posts About SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE by Tom Limoncelli.
• High Scalability - Technical Blog Posts About Systems Architecture.
• rachelbythebay - Techincal Blog Posts.
• SRE Weekly - Weekly Site Reliability Newsletter.
• Production Ready - A mailing list about building resilient infrastructure and tools.
• Susan J. Fowler - Various blog posts about SRE, Software Engineering and Microservices.
• SysAdvent - One article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article.
• Operations for Developers - A collection of resources for developers to strengthen their Ops skills.
• Stephen Thorne’s Blog - Blog Posts About SRE
• Increment - A digital magazine about how teams build and operate software systems at scale.
• O’Reilly Systems Engineering and Operations Newsletter - Weekly systems engineering and operations news and insights from industry insiders.
• GopherSRE - Blog Posts about Go and SRE.

Conferences & Meetups

• SRECon Conferences - The Official SRE Conference.
• LISA Conferences - Prominent Conference About SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE.
• SRE Tech Talks - SRE Talks Hosted by Google.
• South Bay Site Reliability Engineering (Sunnyvale, CA) Meetup - A Group For Individuals Who Tackle Reliability Challenges For Web-Scale Systems.
• San Francisco Reliability Engineering - A Group Of People Who Are Passionate About Reliable, Performant Software Systems.
• Front Range Site Reliability Engineering - SRE Meetup in Boulder/Denver/Golden/DTC/FoCo area.
• Site Reliability Engineering Munich, Germany - SRE Meetup in the greater area of Oktoberfest city.

Sources Credit:

• awesome-sre