Site reliability engineering : how Google runs production systems

Book 2016

"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,...

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Google (Firm) Management

Google Inc

Internet industry United States Management

Reliability (Engineering)

Systems engineering Management

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ISBN:

9781491929124

Edition:

First edition, April 2016

Description:

xxiv, 524 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-512) and index

Contents:

Introduction. The production environment at Google, from the viewpoint of an SRE
Principles. Embracing risk
Service level objectives
Eliminating toil
Monitoring distributed systems
The evolution of automation at Google
Release engineering
Simplicity
Practices. Practical alerting from time-series data
Being on-call
Effective troubleshooting
Emergency response
Managing incidents
Postmortem culture: learning from failure
Tracking outages
Testing for reliability
Software engineering in SRE
Load balancing at the frontend
Load balancing in the datacenter
Handling overload
Addressing cascading failures
Managing critical state: distributed consensus for reliability
Distributed periodic scheduling with Cron --Data processing pipelines
Date integrity: what you read is what your wrote
Reliable product launches at scale
Management. Accelerating SREs to on-call and beyond
Dealing with interrupts
Embedding an SRE to recover from operational overload
Communication and collaboration in SRE
The evolving SRE engagement model
Conclusions. Lessons learned from other industries

Control Number:

2590959

Other Authors:

Beyer, Betsy, editor
Jones, Chris (Computer engineer), editor
Murphy, Niall Richard, editor
Petoff, Jennifer, editor

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