Site Reliability Engineering

2016-03-23
Site Reliability Engineering
Author: Niall Richard Murphy
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre:
ISBN: 1491951176
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The overwhelming majority of a software system’s lifespan is spent in use, not in design or implementation. So, why does conventional wisdom insist that software engineers focus primarily on the design and development of large-scale computing systems? In this collection of essays and articles, key members of Google’s Site Reliability Team explain how and why their commitment to the entire lifecycle has enabled the company to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain some of the largest software systems in the world. You’ll learn the principles and practices that enable Google engineers to make systems more scalable, reliable, and efficient—lessons directly applicable to your organization. This book is divided into four sections: Introduction—Learn what site reliability engineering is and why it differs from conventional IT industry practices Principles—Examine the patterns, behaviors, and areas of concern that influence the work of a site reliability engineer (SRE) Practices—Understand the theory and practice of an SRE’s day-to-day work: building and operating large distributed computing systems Management—Explore Google's best practices for training, communication, and meetings that your organization can use

Hands-on Site Reliability Engineering

2021-07-06
Hands-on Site Reliability Engineering
Author: Shamayel M. Farooqui
Publisher: BPB Publications
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9391030327
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A comprehensive guide with basic to advanced SRE practices and hands-on examples. KEY FEATURES ● Demonstrates how to execute site reliability engineering along with fundamental concepts. ● Illustrates real-world examples and successful techniques to put SRE into production. ● Introduces you to DevOps, advanced techniques of SRE, and popular tools in use. DESCRIPTION Hands-on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) brings you a tailor-made guide to learn and practice the essential activities for the smooth functioning of enterprise systems, right from designing to the deployment of enterprise software programs and extending to scalable use with complete efficiency and reliability. The book explores the fundamentals around SRE and related terms, concepts, and techniques that are used by SRE teams and experts. It discusses the essential elements of an IT system, including microservices, application architectures, types of software deployment, and concepts like load balancing. It explains the best techniques in delivering timely software releases using containerization and CI/CD pipeline. This book covers how to track and monitor application performance using Grafana, Prometheus, and Kibana along with how to extend monitoring more effectively by building full-stack observability into the system. The book also talks about chaos engineering, types of system failures, design for high-availability, DevSecOps and AIOps. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Learn the best techniques and practices for building and running reliable software. ● Explore observability and popular methods for effective monitoring of applications. ● Workaround SLIs, SLOs, Error Budgets, and Error Budget Policies to manage failures. ● Learn to practice continuous software delivery using blue/green and canary deployments. ● Explore chaos engineering, SRE best practices, DevSecOps and AIOps. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book caters to experienced IT professionals, application developers, software engineers, and all those who are looking to develop SRE capabilities at the individual or team level. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Understand the World of IT 2. Introduction to DevOps 3. Introduction to SRE 4. Identify and Eliminate Toil 5. Release Engineering 6. Incident Management 7. IT Monitoring 8. Observability 9. Key SRE KPIs: SLAs, SLOs, SLIs, and Error Budgets 10. Chaos Engineering 11. DevSecOps and AIOps 12. Culture of Site Reliability Engineering

The Site Reliability Workbook

2018-07-25
The Site Reliability Workbook
Author: Betsy Beyer
Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2018-07-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1492029459
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In 2016, Googleâ??s Site Reliability Engineering book ignited an industry discussion on what it means to run production services todayâ??and why reliability considerations are fundamental to service design. Now, Google engineers who worked on that bestseller introduce The Site Reliability Workbook, a hands-on companion that uses concrete examples to show you how to put SRE principles and practices to work in your environment. This new workbook not only combines practical examples from Googleâ??s experiences, but also provides case studies from Googleâ??s Cloud Platform customers who underwent this journey. Evernote, The Home Depot, The New York Times, and other companies outline hard-won experiences of what worked for them and what didnâ??t. Dive into this workbook and learn how to flesh out your own SRE practice, no matter what size your company is. Youâ??ll learn: How to run reliable services in environments you donâ??t completely controlâ??like cloud Practical applications of how to create, monitor, and run your services via Service Level Objectives How to convert existing ops teams to SREâ??including how to dig out of operational overload Methods for starting SRE from either greenfield or brownfield

Building Secure and Reliable Systems

2020-03-16
Building Secure and Reliable Systems
Author: Heather Adkins
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2020-03-16
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1492083097
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Can a system be considered truly reliable if it isn't fundamentally secure? Or can it be considered secure if it's unreliable? Security is crucial to the design and operation of scalable systems in production, as it plays an important part in product quality, performance, and availability. In this book, experts from Google share best practices to help your organization design scalable and reliable systems that are fundamentally secure. Two previous O’Reilly books from Google—Site Reliability Engineering and The Site Reliability Workbook—demonstrated how and why a commitment to the entire service lifecycle enables organizations to successfully build, deploy, monitor, and maintain software systems. In this latest guide, the authors offer insights into system design, implementation, and maintenance from practitioners who specialize in security and reliability. They also discuss how building and adopting their recommended best practices requires a culture that’s supportive of such change. You’ll learn about secure and reliable systems through: Design strategies Recommendations for coding, testing, and debugging practices Strategies to prepare for, respond to, and recover from incidents Cultural best practices that help teams across your organization collaborate effectively

Practical Site Reliability Engineering

2018-11-30
Practical Site Reliability Engineering
Author: Pethuru Raj Chelliah
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2018-11-30
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1788838696
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Create, deploy, and manage applications at scale using SRE principles Key FeaturesBuild and run highly available, scalable, and secure softwareExplore abstract SRE in a simplified and streamlined wayEnhance the reliability of cloud environments through SRE enhancementsBook Description Site reliability engineering (SRE) is being touted as the most competent paradigm in establishing and ensuring next-generation high-quality software solutions. This book starts by introducing you to the SRE paradigm and covers the need for highly reliable IT platforms and infrastructures. As you make your way through the next set of chapters, you will learn to develop microservices using Spring Boot and make use of RESTful frameworks. You will also learn about GitHub for deployment, containerization, and Docker containers. Practical Site Reliability Engineering teaches you to set up and sustain containerized cloud environments, and also covers architectural and design patterns and reliability implementation techniques such as reactive programming, and languages such as Ballerina and Rust. In the concluding chapters, you will get well-versed with service mesh solutions such as Istio and Linkerd, and understand service resilience test practices, API gateways, and edge/fog computing. By the end of this book, you will have gained experience on working with SRE concepts and be able to deliver highly reliable apps and services. What you will learnUnderstand how to achieve your SRE goalsGrasp Docker-enabled containerization conceptsLeverage enterprise DevOps capabilities and Microservices architecture (MSA)Get to grips with the service mesh concept and frameworks such as Istio and LinkerdDiscover best practices for performance and resiliencyFollow software reliability prediction approaches and enable patternsUnderstand Kubernetes for container and cloud orchestrationExplore the end-to-end software engineering process for the containerized worldWho this book is for Practical Site Reliability Engineering helps software developers, IT professionals, DevOps engineers, performance specialists, and system engineers understand how the emerging domain of SRE comes handy in automating and accelerating the process of designing, developing, debugging, and deploying highly reliable applications and services.

Real-World SRE

2018-08-31
Real-World SRE
Author: Nat Welch
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2018-08-31
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1788626443
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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 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.

Software Engineering at Google

2020-02-28
Software Engineering at Google
Author: Titus Winters
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Total Pages: 602
Release: 2020-02-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1492082767
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Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes this difference between programming and software engineering. How can software engineers manage a living codebase that evolves and responds to changing requirements and demands over the length of its life? Based on their experience at Google, software engineers Titus Winters and Hyrum Wright, along with technical writer Tom Manshreck, present a candid and insightful look at how some of the worldâ??s leading practitioners construct and maintain software. This book covers Googleâ??s unique engineering culture, processes, and tools and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization. Youâ??ll explore three fundamental principles that software organizations should keep in mind when designing, architecting, writing, and maintaining code: How time affects the sustainability of software and how to make your code resilient over time How scale affects the viability of software practices within an engineering organization What trade-offs a typical engineer needs to make when evaluating design and development decisions

Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering

2016-05-07
Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering
Author: Eduardo Calixto
Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 810
Release: 2016-05-07
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0128111739
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Gas and Oil Reliability Engineering: Modeling and Analysis, Second Edition, provides the latest tactics and processes that can be used in oil and gas markets to improve reliability knowledge and reduce costs to stay competitive, especially while oil prices are low. Updated with relevant analysis and case studies covering equipment for both onshore and offshore operations, this reference provides the engineer and manager with more information on lifetime data analysis (LDA), safety integrity levels (SILs), and asset management. New chapters on safety, more coverage on the latest software, and techniques such as ReBi (Reliability-Based Inspection), ReGBI (Reliability Growth-Based Inspection), RCM (Reliability Centered Maintenance), and LDA (Lifetime Data Analysis), and asset integrity management, make the book a critical resource that will arm engineers and managers with the basic reliability principles and standard concepts that are necessary to explain their use for reliability assurance for the oil and gas industry. - Provides the latest tactics and processes that can be used in oil and gas markets to improve reliability knowledge and reduce costs - Presents practical knowledge with over 20 new internationally-based case studies covering BOPs, offshore platforms, pipelines, valves, and subsea equipment from various locations, such as Australia, the Middle East, and Asia - Contains expanded explanations of reliability skills with a new chapter on asset integrity management, relevant software, and techniques training, such as THERP, ASEP, RBI, FMEA, and RAMS

Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers

2021-07-02
Google Cloud for DevOps Engineers
Author: Sandeep Madamanchi
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 483
Release: 2021-07-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 183921127X
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Explore site reliability engineering practices and learn key Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as CSR, Cloud Build, Container Registry, GKE, and Cloud Operations to implement DevOps Key FeaturesLearn GCP services for version control, building code, creating artifacts, and deploying secured containerized applicationsExplore Cloud Operations features such as Metrics Explorer, Logs Explorer, and debug logpointsPrepare for the certification exam using practice questions and mock testsBook Description DevOps is a set of practices that help remove barriers between developers and system administrators, and is implemented by Google through site reliability engineering (SRE). With the help of this book, you'll explore the evolution of DevOps and SRE, before delving into SRE technical practices such as SLA, SLO, SLI, and error budgets that are critical to building reliable software faster and balance new feature deployment with system reliability. You'll then explore SRE cultural practices such as incident management and being on-call, and learn the building blocks to form SRE teams. The second part of the book focuses on Google Cloud services to implement DevOps via continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). You'll learn how to add source code via Cloud Source Repositories, build code to create deployment artifacts via Cloud Build, and push it to Container Registry. Moving on, you'll understand the need for container orchestration via Kubernetes, comprehend Kubernetes essentials, apply via Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and secure the GKE cluster. Finally, you'll explore Cloud Operations to monitor, alert, debug, trace, and profile deployed applications. By the end of this SRE book, you'll be well-versed with the key concepts necessary for gaining Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification with the help of mock tests. What you will learnCategorize user journeys and explore different ways to measure SLIsExplore the four golden signals for monitoring a user-facing systemUnderstand psychological safety along with other SRE cultural practicesCreate containers with build triggers and manual invocationsDelve into Kubernetes workloads and potential deployment strategiesSecure GKE clusters via private clusters, Binary Authorization, and shielded GKE nodesGet to grips with monitoring, Metrics Explorer, uptime checks, and alertingDiscover how logs are ingested via the Cloud Logging APIWho this book is for This book is for cloud system administrators and network engineers interested in resolving cloud-based operational issues. IT professionals looking to enhance their careers in administering Google Cloud services and users who want to learn about applying SRE principles and implementing DevOps in GCP will also benefit from this book. Basic knowledge of cloud computing, GCP services, and CI/CD and hands-on experience with Unix/Linux infrastructure is recommended. You'll also find this book useful if you're interested in achieving Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification.