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Aug 29 - Sep 04, 2022

Newsletters

• Monitoring Weekly - What's new in monitoring? Curated monitoring articles to your inbox each week.

• Observability news - Updates around observability (o11y) with a special focus on open source.

Aug 08 - Aug 14, 2022

Reliability

• Using Fault Injection Testing to Improve DoorDash Reliability

Aug 01 - Aug 07, 2022

Culture

• Site Reliability Engineering at Salesforce

• DEVOPS & SRE AMA - Building High Performance Organizations

Education

• Site Un-Reliability Engineering [Video Series]

Books

• Practical Linux Infrastructure

On-Call

• Inside Atlassian: how our site reliability engineers do incident management

• Inside Atlassian: how IT & SRE use ChatOps to run incident management

• How to avoid On-Call Burnout the SRE Way

Capacity Planning

• Intent-based Capacity Planning and Autoscaling with Kubernetes

Jul 04 - Jul 10, 2022

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Error Budget Policy - Part 1 - Adoption at Expedia Group

• Error Budget Policy - Part 2 - Practices at Expedia Group

Service Level Agreement

• A Practical Guide to SLAs

Jun 27 - Jul 03, 2022

Books

• Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence

Podcasts

• Blameless / Resilience in Action

• Google SRE Prodcast

• o11y Observability Podcast

• On Call Nightmares (retired)

• Making of the SRE Omelette

May 30 - Jun 05, 2022

Culture

• SRE vs. DevOps: What’s the Difference Between Them?

May 09 - May 15, 2022

Culture

• Making operational work more visible

May 02 - May 08, 2022

Books

• The Linux Programming Interface

Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2022

Performance

• Performance Checklists for SREs

Feb 28 - Mar 06, 2022

Service Level Agreement

• Best practices for setting SLOs and SLIs for modern, complex systems

Feb 21 - Feb 27, 2022

Service Level Agreement

• Calculating composite SLA

Feb 07 - Feb 13, 2022

Culture

• From Ops to SRE: Evolution of the OpenShift Dedicated Team

• What SREs have to do with project-based services?

Jan 31 - Feb 06, 2022

SRE Tools

• SRE cheat sheet (⭐116) - A cheat sheet for Site Reliability Engineering principles and numbers

Jan 03 - Jan 09, 2022

Books

• Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud [Sample chapter titled CPUs

Dec 20 - Dec 26, 2021

Blogs

• Logit.io Blog - Resources on log management, SRE and devOps.

Dec 13 - Dec 19, 2021

Books

• Four Steps to Creating Effective Game Day Tests

Reliability

• Resiliency Planning for High-Traffic Events

Post-Mortem

• Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis

Service Level Agreement

• SLO tracker

• SLO Alerting for Mortals

• SRE methods and climate change

• What made SLOs so messy (and what we can do about it)

• SLICK: Adopting SLOs for improved reliability

Nov 29 - Dec 05, 2021

On-Call

• Naming names in incident writeups

• Building On-Call Culture at GitHub

Service Level Agreement

• SLI Deep Dive

• Measuring Reliability in GCP: Step By Step SLO creation guide using Cloud Operation Sandbox

Nov 22 - Nov 28, 2021

Reliability

• How we’re building a production readiness review process at Grafana Labs

On-Call

• Elephant in the Blameless War Room: Accountability

Service Level Agreement

• Service Level Disagreements

• How We Use Sloth to do SLO Monitoring and Alerting with Prometheus

Sep 20 - Sep 26, 2021

Misc Articles

• SRE Best Practices by InfraCloud

Jul 12 - Jul 18, 2021

On-Call

• Incident writeup as sociological storytelling

Jul 05 - Jul 11, 2021

Culture

• SRE Cultural Values

• Are we there yet? Thoughts on assessing an SRE team’s maturity

Jun 21 - Jun 27, 2021

Blogs

• incident.io Blog - Guides, advice and resources on incident management and response.

May 17 - May 23, 2021

Misc Articles

• Site Reliability Engineering for Native Mobile Apps - Abhijith Krishnappa - Case study: Halodoc adaptation of SRE principles for Native Mobile Apps

Blogs

• Rootly Blog - Incident management best practices and guides.

Newsletters

• ChaosEngineering.news - Chaos Engineering newsletter. All things Chaos Engineering, directly to your inbox!

Apr 05 - Apr 11, 2021

Education

• New to an SRE team?

Mar 08 - Mar 14, 2021

Culture

• Toil: A Word Every Engineer Should Know

Reliability

• Simplicity: A Prerequisite for Reliability

Post-Mortem

• Writing Your First Postmortem

Feb 22 - Feb 28, 2021

Capacity Planning

• How Back Market SREs prepared for Black Friday

Jan 18 - Jan 24, 2021

Culture

• Taming Operational Load with VMware CRE

Books

• 97 Things Every SRE Should Know

Jan 11 - Jan 17, 2021

Reliability

• Generic mitigations

Dec 28 - Jan 03, 2020

Blogs

• FireHydrant Blog - Posts about complex systems, incident response, and SRE best practices.

Dec 14 - Dec 20, 2020

Education

• School of SRE: Curriculum for onboarding non-traditional hires and new grads

Capacity Planning

• How do you do Capacity Planning

Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2020

Conferences & Meetups

• Site Reliability Engineering India - SRE Meetup India

Oct 05 - Oct 11, 2020

Culture

• The SRE I Aspire to Be

Service Level Agreement

• The Tail at Scale

• The Tail at Scale Revisited

• Defining SLOs for services with dependencies

Misc Articles

• Life of an SRE at Google - JC van Winkel

Sep 28 - Oct 04, 2020

Culture

• A quick introduction to SRE principles (⭐24)

Education

• SRE Classroom: Distributed PubSub workshop

Reliability

• How maintenance windows affect your error budget

• The Production Readiness Spectrum

On-Call

• Project STAR*: Streamlining Our On-Call Process

• Shrinking the time to mitigate production incidents

Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2020

Culture

• The Cloudcast #301: SRE and Infrastructure Operations (Podcast)

• Meeting reliability challenges with SRE principles

Reliability

• Rethinking Task Size in SRE

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Elastic Observability in SRE and Incident Response

On-Call

• How we’ve evolved on-call at Monzo

• Writing Runbook Documentation When You’re An SRE

• Incident response, programs and you(r startup)

• An Incident Command Training Handbook

Post-Mortem

• Improving Postmortem Practices with Veteran Google SRE, Steve McGhee

Service Level Agreement

• Succeeding With Service Level Objectives

• Putting customers first with SLIs and SLOs

• SRE Leadership: Have Tiered SLAs

• How SLOs Enable Fast, Reliable Application Delivery

Blogs

• Squadcast Blog - Blog posts about SRE best practices, reliability, on-call and incident management.

Twitter

• The SRE Dev - SRE-related Posts from dev.to.

Aug 10 - Aug 16, 2020

Culture

• Evolution or Rebellion? The rise of Site Reliability Engineers (SRE)

Education

• Training Site Reliability Engineers: What Your Organization Needs to Create a Learning Program

Jul 06 - Jul 12, 2020

Newsletters

• KubeWeekly - The weekly newsletters for all things Kubernetes. KubeWeekly is curated by Bob Killen, Chris Short, Craig Box, Kim McMahon and Michael Hausenblas

Jun 01 - Jun 07, 2020

Newsletters

• DevOpsLinks - A weekly newsletter about SRE, SysAdmin and DevOps news, tools, tutorials and opinions.

• SRE Weekly - Weekly Site Reliability Newsletter.

• O’Reilly Systems Engineering and Operations Newsletter - Weekly systems engineering and operations news and insights from industry insiders.

May 04 - May 10, 2020

Education

• Designing distributed systems using NALSD flashcards

Books

• Chaos Engineering: Crash test your applications

Reliability

• Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack

Apr 27 - May 03, 2020

SRE Tools

• Awesome SRE Tools (⭐617) - A curated list of Site Reliability and Production Engineering tools

Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2020

Books

• Building Secure and Reliable Systems

Post-Mortem

• Learn out of mistakes. Postmortems to the rescue.

Feb 17 - Feb 23, 2020

On-Call

• How our production team runs the weekly on-call handover

Feb 03 - Feb 09, 2020

Culture

• Identifying and tracking toil using SRE principles

On-Call

• My week shadowing a GitLab Site Reliability Engineer

Jan 27 - Feb 02, 2020

Blogs

• Resilience Roundup - Weekly analysis of Resilience Engineering and Human Factors research designed for software systems

Dec 23 - Dec 29, 2019

Reliability

• Production Checklist for Web Apps on Kubernetes

Dec 16 - Dec 22, 2019

Reliability

• Are you ready for production? - Slides

Service Level Agreement

• How to Include Latency in SLO-Based Alerting

Dec 09 - Dec 15, 2019

Service Level Agreement

• The Art of SLOs Workshop Materials

Dec 02 - Dec 08, 2019

Misc Articles

• SRECon EMEA 2019 Recap

Conferences & Meetups

• Site Reliability Engineering Paris, France - SRE Meetup in the city of light.

Nov 18 - Nov 24, 2019

Culture

• Making a Lion Bulletproof: SRE in Banking

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Site Reliability Engineering Best Practices for Data Pipelines

Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2019

Service Level Agreement

• DevOpsDays Chicago 2019 - The Art of SLOs

Nov 04 - Nov 10, 2019

Culture

• Transitioning a typical engineering ops team into an SRE powerhouse

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Deploys: It's Not Actually About Fridays

Misc Articles

• SRE as a Lifestyle Choice

Oct 28 - Nov 03, 2019

On-Call

• Incident insights from NASA, NTSB, and the CDC

Oct 21 - Oct 27, 2019

Conferences & Meetups

• ADDO - All Day DevOps - A 24 hour conference that is completely online and free.

Oct 14 - Oct 20, 2019

Culture

• SRE in the Third Age

• About SRE and how (not) to apply it

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Applied Alerting Philosophy

• Observations on Observability

Sep 16 - Sep 22, 2019

Reliability

• PID Loops and the Art of Keeping Systems Stable

Sep 09 - Sep 15, 2019

Post-Mortem

• "It's dead, Jim": How we write an incident postmortem

• Our incident postmortem template

SRE Tools

• List of Continuous Integration services (⭐3k)

Sep 02 - Sep 08, 2019

Reliability

• Taming chaos: Preparing for your next incident

Service Level Agreement

• Backblaze Durability is 99.999999999% — And Why It Doesn’t Matter

Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2019

Education

• Duties of a Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Aug 05 - Aug 11, 2019

Reliability

• Top Seven Myths of Robust Systems

On-Call

• Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis

Jul 29 - Aug 04, 2019

Culture

• The Modern Site Reliability Workbench on Top of OCI

Reliability

• production readiness

• Trust By Design: The Fusion of Operational Maturity and Risk Modeling

On-Call

• Extended Dreyfus Model for Incident Lifecycles (⭐24)

Service Level Agreement

• The Tyranny of the SLA

Performance

• A framework for pragmatic performance engineering

Jul 22 - Jul 28, 2019

Culture

• A hierarchy of SRE needs

• SRE: An incomplete guide to cultural Narnia - [Video]

• How to Avoid the 5 SRE Implementation Traps that Catch Even the Best Teams

Education

• Spiraling Ops Debt & the SRE Coding Imperative

• Why SRE Documents Matter

• How to get started with site reliability engineering (SRE)

On-Call

• How we (Monzo) respond to incidents

• Code Yellow: When Operations Isn’t Perfect

• MTTR is dead, long live CIRT

Post-Mortem

• Why Every Company Can Benefit from a Blameless Culture

Service Level Agreement

• How many nines is my storage system?

• Don't follow the sun.

Misc Articles

• The Role of Site Reliability Engineering, Today and Tomorrow

Blogs

• Blameless Blog - Blog posts about SRE culture and practices.

Jul 08 - Jul 14, 2019

On-Call

• Managing Incidents at Monzo

• Making On-Call Not Suck

Twitter

• Google SRE Twitter Account - Google's SRE Twitter Account.

• SREWorkbook - The Official Twitter Account of Site Reliability Workbook.

Jul 01 - Jul 07, 2019

Culture

• Reliability Engineering – The Essential Discipline for Complex Systems

Education

• Do you have an SRE team yet? How to start and assess your journey

• How SRE teams are organized, and how to get started

Books

• What is SRE?

• Engineering Reliable Mobile Applications: Strategies for Developing Resilient Native Mobile Applications

On-Call

• Better On-Call the SRE way

Jun 24 - Jun 30, 2019

Hiring

• Engineering Manager - Site Reliability Engineering Interview Preparation

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Alerting on SLOs like Pros

Service Level Agreement

• Nines are Not Enough: Meaningful Metrics for Clouds

Real-time Messaging

• USENIX SREcon Slack

Jun 17 - Jun 23, 2019

Blogs

• Brendan Gregg's Blog - Highly Technical Blog Posts About Systems Internals, Performance and SRE.

Jun 03 - Jun 09, 2019

Misc Articles

• SREs: The Happiest – and Highest Paid – in the Industry

May 20 - May 26, 2019

Service Level Agreement

• Earning Our Wings: Stories and Findings From Operating a Large-scale Concourse Deployment

May 13 - May 19, 2019

On-Call

• Avoiding Burnout for SREs

Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2019

Education

• How to Get Into SRE

Mar 18 - Mar 24, 2019

Misc Articles

• SRE Adoption Report

Feb 04 - Feb 10, 2019

Post-Mortem

• Collection of Kubernetes Failure Stories (⭐6.2k)

Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2019

Culture

• SRE vs. DevOps: competing standards or close friends?

Education

• SRE fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs

Reliability

• Google Cloud Production Guideline

Misc Articles

• Building blameless working environment

Jan 14 - Jan 20, 2019

Blogs

• Cindy Sridharan - Blog posts about distributed systems and their management.

Dec 17 - Dec 23, 2018

Misc Articles

• Injured on Vacation? Applying Principles from Site Reliability Engineering to a Travel Emergency

Dec 10 - Dec 16, 2018

Culture

• John Allspaw's AMA on Incident Analysis and Postmortems

Performance

• Software Performance Analysis Guided By SLOs

Nov 26 - Dec 02, 2018

Education

• The Ultimate Guide to Structuring a 90-Day Onboarding Plan

Twitter

• Twitter SRE Weekly - The Official Twitter Account of SRE Weekly Newsletter.

Nov 12 - Nov 18, 2018

Culture

• Getting Started with SRE - Stephen Thorne, Google

• Building Successful SRE in Large Enterprises

• Solving Reliability Fears with Site Reliability Engineering

Books

• Seeking SRE

Reliability

• Progressive Service Architecture At Auth0

On-Call

• Atlassian Incident Handbook

• PagerDuty Incident Response Handbook

Nov 05 - Nov 11, 2018

Culture

• Less Risk Through Greater Humanity - Dave Rensin

Oct 29 - Nov 04, 2018

Culture

• Interview with Betsy Beyer, Stephen Thorne of Google

Oct 08 - Oct 14, 2018

Culture

• LinkedIn’s Kurt Andersen Uncovers Blindspots in SRE Implementations

Sep 17 - Sep 23, 2018

On-Call

• Checklists: a stupidly simple but valuable operational gift

• How to write a status page update

Sep 10 - Sep 16, 2018

Misc Articles

• What Team Structure is Right for DevOps to Flourish?

Sep 03 - Sep 09, 2018

Culture

• "Practical Applications of the Dickerson Pyramid" by Nat Welch

Books

• Real-World SRE

Aug 20 - Aug 26, 2018

Post-Mortem

• Post-mortems to the rescue

• Postmortem Action Items: Plan the Work and Work the Plan

Aug 13 - Aug 19, 2018

Service Level Agreement

• SLOs & You: A Guide To Service Level Objectives

Jul 30 - Aug 05, 2018

Books

• The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE

Jul 16 - Jul 22, 2018

Culture

• Getting Started with Site Reliability Engineering (⭐111)

Service Level Agreement

• SRE fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs

Jul 09 - Jul 15, 2018

Culture

• How a cat inspired system reliability at Knowlarity

Jul 02 - Jul 08, 2018

Culture

• From Sys Admin to Netflix SRE - video and slides

Service Level Agreement

• Understanding error budget overspend - part one - CRE life lessons

• Good housekeeping for error budgets - part two - CRE life lessons

Jun 11 - Jun 17, 2018

Culture

• The human scalability of "DevOps"

• Podcast: Site Reliability Management with Mike Hiraga

On-Call

• Incidents, fixes, and the day after

• 10 Steps to Develop an Incident Response Plan You’ll ACTUALLY Use

Jun 04 - Jun 10, 2018

Service Level Agreement

• Error Budget Calculator

May 28 - Jun 03, 2018

Education

• Incident Management Training: Wheel of Misfortune

Post-Mortem

• Postmortem culture: how you can learn from failure

• re:Work - Postmortem discussion template

May 21 - May 27, 2018

Culture

• The Azure Podcast: Episode 227 - Azure SRE

On-Call

• dotScale 2017 - Aish Raj Dahal - Chaos management during a major incident

• Incident Management at Netflix Velocity

Post-Mortem

• Google Has an Official Process in Place for Learning From Failure--and It's Absolutely Brilliant

Misc Articles

• Looking for SRE Success? Then Find the Intrapreneurs!

May 14 - May 20, 2018

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Want to Debug Latency?

• Debugging Latency in Go 1.11

Apr 30 - May 06, 2018

Education

• Lynda.com: DevOps Foundations: Site Reliability Engineering

Reliability

• Tips for High Availability

On-Call

• Sustainable On-Call

Apr 23 - Apr 29, 2018

Culture

• Tech Leadership in SRE

Books

• Incident Management for Operations

Conferences & Meetups

• Site Reliability Engineering Munich, Germany - SRE Meetup in the greater area of Oktoberfest city.

Apr 16 - Apr 22, 2018

Culture

• The Makeup of Successful Geographically-Distributed SRE Teams - Part1 & Part2

Reliability

• Google: A Collection Of Best Practices For Production Services

• Canary Analysis Service

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• GitOps Part 3 - Observability

On-Call

• Moving Past Shallow Incident Data

Misc Articles

• Site Reliability Engineering: 4 Things to Know

Apr 09 - Apr 15, 2018

On-Call

• Advice to Management Teams While Enrolling Changes to On-Call Systems

Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2018

On-Call

• 3 Ways to Minimize the Impact of High Severity Incidents

Mar 12 - Mar 18, 2018

On-Call

• On Call Rotations: How Best to Wake Devs Up in the Middle of the Night

• Understanding The Role Of The Incident Manager On-Call (IMOC)

Mar 05 - Mar 11, 2018

Culture

• GOTO 2017 • Site Reliability Engineering at Google • Christof Leng

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• The Many Ways Your Monitoring Is Lying to You

Feb 19 - Feb 25, 2018

On-Call

• Oncall and Sustainable Software Development

Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2018

Culture

• A Gentle Introduction to SRE

• Understanding Site Reliability Engineering through Movies and Books

Reliability

• The Network is Reliable

• Are You Load Balancing Wrong?

• How production engineers support global events on Facebook

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Monitoring in a DevOps World

• Monitoring Your Monitoring’s Monitoring

• Observability: the new wave or buzzword?

• Monitoring Isn't Observability

• Monitoring in the time of Cloud Native

• Principles of Monitoring Microservices

On-Call

• How Your Systems Keep Running Day After Day - John Allspaw

• On-call doesn’t have to suck

• Why, as a Netflix infrastructure manager, am I on call?

Service Level Agreement

• Service Level Objectives in Practice

• SRE Consensus Building

• An example escalation policy — CRE life lessons

Misc Articles

• Commentary on Site Reliability Engineering

Feb 05 - Feb 11, 2018

Culture

• What is Site Reliability Engineering? (VMware)

Books

• How to Monitoring the SRE Golden Signals (E-Book)

Reliability

• Why you should pick strong consistency, whenever possible

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• How to Monitor the SRE Golden Signals

On-Call

• SRE@Xero: Managing Incidents Part I

• SRE@Xero: Managing Incidents Part II

• How To Establish a High Severity Incident Management Program

Jan 08 - Jan 14, 2018

Service Level Agreement

• Consequences of SLO violations — CRE life lessons

Dec 25 - Dec 31, 2017

On-Call

• Automating Your Oncall: Open Sourcing Fossor and Ascii Etch

Post-Mortem

• Social Issues In Postmortems

Oct 30 - Nov 05, 2017

Blogs

• rachelbythebay - Techincal Blog Posts.

Oct 23 - Oct 29, 2017

Culture

• Google’s Site Reliability Engineering with Todd Underwood

Hiring

• Growing the Site Reliability Team at LinkedIn: Hiring is Hard

Service Level Agreement

• Building good SLOs - CRE life lessons

• No Grumpy Humans and Other Site Reliability Engineering Lessons from Google

Oct 16 - Oct 22, 2017

Culture

• A crash course in LinkedIn's global site operations

Sep 11 - Sep 17, 2017

Culture

• Building Blocks for Site Reliability At Google

• Beyond Google SRE: What is Site Reliability Engineering like at Medium?

• Intelligent Site Reliability Engineering – A Machine Learning Perspective

Education

• What is the role of a Site Reliability Engineer?

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• An introduction to monitoring and alerting with timeseries at scale, with Prometheus

• Detecting outliers and anomalies in realtime at Datadog

On-Call

• Run Book / Operations Manual template (⭐647)

Blogs

• GopherSRE - Blog Posts about Go and SRE.

Aug 21 - Aug 27, 2017

Culture

• Onboarding New Site Reliability Engineers

Education

• Career Profiles/Site Reliability Engineer

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Incidents + Outages at CircleCI: Our Playbook and What We’ve Learned

Aug 14 - Aug 20, 2017

Misc Articles

• Open AWS guide (⭐33k)

Aug 07 - Aug 13, 2017

Books

• Antifragile Systems and Teams

Post-Mortem

• Postmortem Action Items: Plan the Work and Work the Plan

Performance

• South Bay SRE Meetup - Netflix Cloud Performance Team

Jul 31 - Aug 06, 2017

Culture

• The SRE model

Reliability

• CRE life lessons: What is a dark launch, and what does it do for me?

Jul 24 - Jul 30, 2017

Culture

• Why should your app get SRE support? - CRE life lessons

• How SREs find the landmines in a service - CRE life lessons

• Making the most of an SRE service takeover - CRE life lessons

Reliability

• Know thy enemy: how to prioritize and communicate risks - CRE life lessons

• Chaos Engineering resources (⭐5.2k)

Post-Mortem

• Embracing Feedback

Programming

• Go Reliability and Durability at Dropbox

Jul 17 - Jul 23, 2017

Books

• Chaos Engineering: Building Confidence in System Behavior through Experiment

• Post-Incident Reviews: Learning from Failure for Improved Incident Responses

Programming

• Operability in Go

Jul 03 - Jul 09, 2017

Culture

• Site Reliability Engineering with Paul Newson - Part 1 & Part 2

Reliability

• Designing reliable systems with cloud infrastructure (Google Cloud Next '17)

• A Google SRE explores GitHub reliability with BigQuery

Jun 26 - Jul 02, 2017

Service Level Agreement

• Standardize cloud SLA availability with numerical performance data

• Best practices to develop SLAs for cloud computing

Jun 12 - Jun 18, 2017

Culture

• Podcast #111 – SRE: Occasionally Maintaining Infrastructure That You Hate

• Splicing SRE DNA Sequences in the Biggest Software Company on the Planet

Books

• Monitoring Distributed Systems: Case Studies from Google's SRE Teams

• The Human Side of Postmortems: Managing Stress and Cognitive Biases

Reliability

• Every Day Is Monday in Operations

• Under the Hood: Ensuring Site Reliability

Service Level Agreement

• Availability Calculator: Calculate how much downtime should be permitted in your SLA

May 29 - Jun 04, 2017

Culture

• Building the SRE Culture at LinkedIn

Reliability

• Things I Learned Managing Site Reliability for Some of the World’s Busiest Gambling Sites

Post-Mortem

• How to Write Great Outage Post-Mortems

• A collection of postmortem templates (⭐971)

May 22 - May 28, 2017

Reliability

• The Production Environment at Google - Part 1 & Part 2

• Reliable releases and rollbacks - CRE life lessons

• How release canaries can save your bacon - CRE life lessons

Service Level Agreement

• (Un)Reliability Budgets - Finding Balance between Innovation and Reliability

• The Calculus of Service Availability

May 01 - May 07, 2017

Culture

• Is Site Reliability Engineering the True ‘Ops’ in DevOps?

• SRE vs. DevOps vs. Cloud Native: The Server Cage Match

• SRE: What’s The Big Idea?

Misc Articles

• SREcon17: Brave new world of site reliability engineering

Blogs

• Increment - A digital magazine about how teams build and operate software systems at scale.

Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2017

Education

• So you want to be a Site Reliability Engineer?

• So you want to be an SRE?

Mar 06 - Mar 12, 2017

Culture

• Hope Is Not a Strategy

• Tenets of SRE

• Site Reliability Engineering Demystified

Blogs

• Stephen Thorne's Blog - Blog Posts About SRE

Feb 27 - Mar 05, 2017

On-Call

• Incident management at Google — adventures in SRE-land

Jan 30 - Feb 05, 2017

Culture

• SBSRE Meetup: Different SRE roles and challenges(Netflix)

• Panel: Who/What Is SRE?

Reliability

• How Google Backs Up The Internet Along With Exabytes Of Other Data

• Performance, Scalability, And High Availability: 3 Key Infrastructure Adaptability Requirements

Capacity Planning

• SouthBay SRE: Cloud Capacity Planning

Service Level Agreement

• SLOs, SLIs, SLAs, oh my - CRE life lessons

• Service Levels and Error Budgets

Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2017

Reliability

• Scaling Reliability at Twitter: So You Want to Add a 9

• Principles Of Chaos Engineering

• Chaos Engineering

• Available...or not? That is the question - CRE life lessons

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Building Twitter’s Next-Gen Alerting System

• Instrumentation: Worst case performance matters

• Instrumentation: What does 'uptime' mean?

Jan 16 - Jan 22, 2017

Reliability

• Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure

• The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale

On-Call

• The On-Call Handbook (⭐381)

Jan 09 - Jan 15, 2017

Culture

• SRE in the Small and in the Large

Jan 02 - Jan 08, 2017

Culture

• The difference between Site Reliability Engineering, System Administration, and DevOps

Education

• Graduating from Bootcamp and interested in becoming a Site Reliability Engineer?

Reliability

• Don't gamble when it comes to reliability

Dec 26 - Jan 01, 2016

Culture

• Microservices, DevOps and Production Complexity

• Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering

Reliability

• Using load shedding to survive a success disaster - CRE life lessons

• How to avoid a self-inflicted DDoS Attack - CRE life lessons

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• The 4 Golden Signals of API Health and Performance in Cloud-Native Applications

• My Philosophy on Alerting by Rob Ewaschuk

• Time To Detect - Netflix

• Why Percentiles Don’t Work the Way you Think

Dec 19 - Dec 25, 2016

Culture

• SE-Radio Episode 276: Björn Rabenstein on Site Reliability Engineering

Reliability

• Production is all that matters

On-Call

• SysAdvent - Day 6 - No More On-Call Martyrs

• On Being On Call

Post-Mortem

• SysAdvent - Day 1 - Why You Need a Postmortem Process

• Etsy’s Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems

Service Level Agreement

• SysAdvent- Day 20 - How to set and monitor SLAs

Blogs

• SysAdvent - One article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article.

Nov 28 - Dec 04, 2016

Misc Articles

• Site Reliability Engineers: “We solve cooler problems”

Oct 31 - Nov 06, 2016

Culture

• The Irreproducibility Of Bugs In Large-Scale Production Systems

Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2016

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Observability at Uber Engineering: Past, Present, Future

Oct 17 - Oct 23, 2016

Culture

• The Ops Identity Crisis

Books

• Microservices in Production - Standard Principles and Requirements

• Production-Ready Microservices - Building Standardized Systems Across an Engineering Organization

Hiring

• Hiring your first SRE

Blogs

• Susan J. Fowler - Various blog posts about SRE, Software Engineering and Microservices.

Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2016

Culture

• We are the Google Site Reliability team. We make Google’s websites work. Ask us Anything!

• We are the Google Site Reliability Engineering team. Ask us Anything!

Sep 26 - Oct 02, 2016

Reliability

• The Morning Paper on Operability

Misc Articles

• Book Review: Site Reliability Engineering - How Google Runs Production Systems

Sep 19 - Sep 25, 2016

Conferences & Meetups

• San Francisco Reliability Engineering - A Group Of People Who Are Passionate About Reliable, Performant Software Systems.

Sep 12 - Sep 18, 2016

Culture

• Love DevOps? Wait 'till you meet SRE [video]

• How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves

• The Softer Side of DevOps

• SRE, noun. See also: confidence, trust.

• Site Reliability Engineering with Stephen Weinberg

Reliability

• Dickerson's Hierarchy of Reliability

On-Call

• Who's On Call?

Post-Mortem

• Building a Blameless Post-Mortem Culture with Jason Hand

• The infinite hows

• Failure is Always An Option: How a Blameless Culture Leads to Better Results

Conferences & Meetups

• South Bay Site Reliability Engineering (Sunnyvale, CA) Meetup - A Group For Individuals Who Tackle Reliability Challenges For Web-Scale Systems.

Aug 29 - Sep 04, 2016

Books

• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Reliability

• The Ripple Effect Of Outages And Downtime Cannot Be Underestimated

• The infrastructure behind Twitter: efficiency and optimization

Post-Mortem

• A Tale of Postmortems

Misc Articles

• Adventures in SRE-land: Welcome to Google Mission Control

Aug 22 - Aug 28, 2016

Culture

• Engineering Reliability into Web Sites: Google SRE

Education

• The Systems Engineering Side of Site Reliability Engineering

Books

• Web Operations - Keeping the Data On Time

Hiring

• Hiring Site Reliability Engineers

Reliability

• How Embracing Continuous Release Reduced Change Complexity

• Making "Push On Green" a Reality

• BeyondCorp: A New Approach to Enterprise Security

• Brainstorming Failure by Jeff Smith

Post-Mortem

• Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture

Real-time Messaging

• #sre channel at Hangops Slack - Discussion of Site Reliability Engineering generally.

• #incident_response channel at Hangops Slack - Discussion about Incident Response.

Jul 11 - Jul 17, 2016

Conferences & Meetups

• SRECon Conferences - The Official SRE Conference.

• LISA Conferences - Prominent Conference About SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE.

• SRE Tech Talks - SRE Talks Hosted by Google.

Twitter

• SREBook - The Official Twitter Account of Site Reliability Engineering Book.

• SREcon - SRECon's Official Twitter Account.

• USENIX Association - The Official USENIX Twitter Account.

Jul 04 - Jul 10, 2016

Reliability

• The Two Sides to Google Infrastructure for Everyone Else

Blogs

• Everything Sysadmin - Blog Posts About SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE by Tom Limoncelli.

• High Scalability - Technical Blog Posts About Systems Architecture.

Twitter

• Twitter SRE - The Official Twitter Account of Twitter's SRE team.

Jun 20 - Jun 26, 2016

Culture

• Work at Google: Meet our Production Engineers for Site Reliability Hangout on Air

Jun 06 - Jun 12, 2016

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• Monitoring distributed systems

Misc Articles

• Site reliability engineering kicks rote tasks out of IT ops

May 09 - May 15, 2016

Reliability

• SRE Hour: Tech Talks by Box & Yelp

Capacity Planning

• Capacity Planning

Apr 25 - May 01, 2016

Culture

• Putting Together Great SRE Teams

Reliability

• The Realities of the Job of Delivering Reliability

Service Level Agreement

• If It's in the Cloud, Get It on Paper: Cloud Computing Contract Issues

Programming

• Go Language for Ops and Site Reliability Engineering

• Go for SREs using Python

Misc Articles

• What is SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)?

Apr 18 - Apr 24, 2016

Culture

• PostOps: A Non-Surgical Tale of Software, Fragility, and Reliability

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• A Working Theory-of-Monitoring

On-Call

• Incident Response at Heroku

Service Level Agreement

• Service Level Agreements in the Cloud: Who cares?

Apr 11 - Apr 17, 2016

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

• 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 StackOverflow

• Site Reliability Engineering at Dropbox

• Site Reliability Engineers — Keeping Google up and running 24/7

• SRE@Google: Thousands of DevOps Since 2004

• Transactional System Administration Is Killing Us and Must be Stopped

Education

• Panel: Educating SRE

• From Zero to Hero: Recommended Practices for Training your Ever-Evolving SRE Teams

Books

• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

• The Practice Of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems

Hiring

• SRE Hiring

• Hiring SREs at LinkedIn

Reliability

• Fail at Scale by Ben Maurer

• Embracing Failure: Fault-Injection and Service Reliability

• 10 Years of Crashing Google

• How we break things at Twitter: failure testing

• Reliable Cron across the Planet

• Push our limits - reliability testing at Twitter

• The Verification of a Distributed System by Caitie McCaffrey

• Weathering the Unexpected

Monitoring & Observability & Alerting

• The Evolution of Monitoring Systems at Google - Tony Rippy

• Monitoring without Infrastructure @ Airbnb

On-Call

• Being an On-Call Engineer: A Google SRE Perspective

Post-Mortem

• A collection of post-mortems (⭐9.8k)

Misc Articles

• Here’s How Google Makes Sure It (Almost) Never Goes Down

• Are site reliability engineers the next data scientists?

• Site Reliability Engineers: "solving the most interesting problems"

• Site Reliability Engineers: the "world’s most intense pit crew"

• Notes on Site Reliability Engineering