Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Google pioneered the discipline of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), applying reliability to the entire user journey for consumer, enterprise, and infrastructure systems. In the years since, many organizations have followed suit, guided by the tenets laid out in the best-selling first edition of this practical book. Now, a fully revised edition brings Site Reliability Engineering up-to-date with fresh insights on engineering techniques, organizational processes, and case studies that will help you promote and implement greater reliability throughout the engineering lifecycle. In this edition, key members of Google's SRE team explore the company's current SRE practices and explain how they've evolved in the decade since the book's initial publication. Updates cover the value of reliability, cloud reliability, and the impact of AI. You'll learn the principles and practices that can make your organization's systems scalable, reliable, and efficient. Train new Site Reliability Engineers based on the latest practices in the field Develop engineering organizations that support reliability as a feature Build online services that incorporate reliability principles Start to use emerging AI capabilities to improve SRE across the organization and optimize critical areas such as automation and incident detection