SRE book notes: Wrapping Up

So, after a long vacation break, it has come to an end. I wish I had read this book before. Still actual to this day. So much experience condensed in a book, and so much learned the hard way.

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The book comes with a bunch of additional material. They were used and discussed throughout the chapters, but deserve their own section given their usefulness:

• Availability Table

• A Collection of Best Practices for Production Services

• Example Incident State Document

• Example Postmortem

• Launch Coordination Checklist

• Example Production Meeting Minutes

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Summary of notes taken:

• Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering

• Embracing Risk

• Service Level Objectives

• Eliminating Toil

• Monitoring Distributed Systems

• The Evolution of Automation at Google

• Release Engineering

• Simplicity

• Practices

• Practical Alerting

• Being On-Call

• Effective Troubleshooting

• Emergency Response

• Managing Incidents

• Postmortem Culture

• Software Engineering in SRE

• Addressing Cascading Failures

• Managing Critical State, Distributed Consensus for Reliability

• Data Integrity, What You Read Is What You Wrote

• Reliable Product Launches at Scale

• Dealing with Interrupts

• Embedding an SRE to Recover from Operational Overload

• Communication and Collaboration in SRE

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