How they SRE

A curated collection of publicly available resources on how technology and tech-savvy organizations around the world practice Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Introduction

How They SRE is a curated knowledge repository of best practices, tools, techniques, and culture of SRE adopted by the leading technology or tech-savvy organizations.

Many organizations regularly come forward and share their best practices, tools, techniques and offer an insight into engineering culture on various public platforms like engineering blogs, conferences & meetups. The content is curated from these avenues and shared in this repository.

Note to readers: This list refers to some of the articles, posts, videos, tools, and techniques published before 2015. Please use such material with caution as there may be recent advances in technology and practices which offer better alternatives and perspectives.

Topics

• Site Reliability Engineering
• Hiring and Building SRE teams
• SRE Culture
• DevOps
• Monitoring & Observability
• Alerting
• Incident Response…

An updated and organized reading list for illustrating the patterns of scalable, reliable, and performant large-scale systems. Concepts are explained in the articles of prominent engineers and credible references. Case studies are taken from battle-tested systems that serve millions to billions of users.

If your system goes slow

Understand your problems: scalability problem (fast for a single user but slow under heavy load) or performance problem (slow for a single user) by reviewing some design principles and checking how scalability and performance problems are solved at tech companies. The section of intelligence are created for those who work with data and machine learning at big (data) and deep (learning) scale.

If your system goes down

"Even if you lose all one day, you can build all over again if you retain your calm!" - Thuan Pham, former CTO of Uber. So, keep calm and mind the availability and stability matters!

ℹ️  This repo contains questions and exercises on various technical topics, sometimes related to DevOps and SRE :)

📊  There are currently 1575 questions

📚  To learn more about DevOps and SRE, check the resources in devops-resources repository

⚠️  You can use these for preparing for an interview but most of the questions and exercises don't represent an actual interview. Please read Q&A for more details

👥  Join our DevOps community where we have discussions and resources on DevOps

📝  You can add more questions and exercises by submitting pull requests :) Read about contribution guidelines here

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Programming	Python	Go	Scripts	Kubernetes	Prometheus	Mongo
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DevOps

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"A great Admin doesn't need to know everything, but they should be able to come up with amazing solutions to impossible projects." - cwheeler33 (ServerFault)

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"My skills are making things work, not knowing a billion facts. [...] If I need to fix a system I’ll identify the problem, check the logs and look up the errors. If I need to implement a solution I’ll research the right solution, implement and document it, the later on only really have a general idea of how it works unless I interact with it frequently... it’s why it’s documented." - Sparcrypt (Reddit)

ℹ️  This project contains 284 test questions and answers that can be used as a test your knowledge or during an interview/exam for position such as Linux (*nix) System Administrator.

✔️  The answers are only examples and do not exhaust…

Awesome Site Reliability Engineering

A curated list of awesome Site Reliability and Production Engineering resources.

What is Site Reliability Engineering?

"Fundamentally, it's what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations function." - Ben Treynor Sloss, VP Google Engineering, founder of Google SRE

Contributing

Please take a look at the contribution guidelines first Contributions are always welcome!

Contents

• Culture
• Education
• Books
• Hiring
• Reliability
• Monitoring & Observability & Alerting
• On-Call
• Post-Mortem
• Capacity Planning
• Service Level Agreement
• Performance
• Misc Articles
• Blogs
• Newsletters
• Conferences & Meetups
• Twitter
• SRE Tools

Culture

• What is Site Reliability Engineering?
• Keys To SRE by Ben Treynor
• Google SRE Resources
• Notes from Production Engineering by Pedro Canahuati
• PostOps: Recovery from Operations
• Love DevOps? Wait 'till you meet SRE [video]
• How Google Does Planet-Scale Engineering for Planet-Scale Infra
• Site Reliability Engineering at Facebook
• A History of Site Reliability Engineering at Uber
• Case Study: Adopting SRE Principles at…

Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc.

SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack.

👉 You can see metrics like p99 latency, error rates for your services, external API calls and individual end points.

👉 You can find the root cause of the problem by going to the exact traces which are causing the problem and see detailed flamegraphs of individual request traces.

👇 Features:

• Application overview metrics like RPS, 50th/90th/99th Percentile latencies, and Error Rate
• Slowest endpoints in your application
• See exact request trace to figure out issues in downstream services, slow DB queries, call to 3rd party services like payment gateways, etc
• Filter traces by service name, operation, latency, error, tags/annotations.
• Aggregate metrics on filtered traces. Eg, you can get error…