Site Reliability Engineering(OReilly,2016)

Building and operating distributed systems is fundamental to large-scale production infrastructure, but doing so in a scalable, reliable, and efficient way requires a lot of good design, and trial and error. In this collection of essays and articles, key members of the Site Reliability Team at Google explain how the company has successfully navigated these deep waters over the past decade. You’ll learn how Google continuously monitors and deploys some of the largest software systems in the world, how its Site Reliability Engine ering team learns and improves after outages, and how they balance risk-taking vs reliability with error budgets. 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.