High Performance SRE

This book is a must-read, providing insights into SRE principles for beginners and experienced professionals. Study the fundamentals and evolution of SRE, gaining a solid foundation for success in today's tech-centric world.

Starting with the fundamentals, it expands into the evolution of SRE from traditional IT roles, laying a solid foundation for understanding its pivotal role in today’s tech-driven world. The core of the book focuses on practical strategies and advanced techniques. Readers will learn about automating tasks, effective incident management, setting realistic service level objectives, and managing error budgets. These topics are crucial for maintaining system reliability while fostering innovation. Additionally, the book emphasizes performance optimization and scalability, ensuring that systems run smoothly and adapt and grow effectively.

High performance SRE emphasizes more than just technical skills. It encourages teamwork, a blame-free culture, and continuous learning, empowering SRE professionals for operational excellence and organizational success.

KEY FEATURES  

• Understand the basics of site reliability engineering to ensure that systems run smoothly.
• Learn advanced automation methods for efficient and effective operations.
• Enhance performance and scalability through optimization techniques.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Understand core SRE principles and adapt them to various environments.
• Automate routine tasks for efficiency and error reduction.
• Efficiently manage and respond to incidents, reducing downtime.
• Set and manage SLOs and error budgets for balanced development.
• Optimize system performance and ensure scalability in operations.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

This book caters to students, application developers, software engineers, system administrators, and anyone who wishes to understand how to have a rewarding career in the field of SRE.

1. Introduction to Site Reliability Engineer
2. DevOps to Site Reliability Engineering
3. Monitoring
4. Incident Management and Risk Mitigation 
5. Error Budgets
6. SLI/SLO/SLA
7. Capacity Planning
8. On-call and First-response 
9. RCA and Post-mortem
10. Chaos Engineering
11. Artificial Intelligence for Site Reliability Engineering
12. Case Studies

Anchal Arora Mishra brings an extensive amount of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer from Walmart Global Tech to the creative sphere of technology. Anchal is not only adept in maintaining system reliability but also possesses a robust background in both the theoretical and practical aspects of Cloud Computing, DevOps, and SRE.

Anchal holds a post-graduate degree in Computer Applications from the prestigious VIT University in Vellore, ensuring a solid academic foundation behind the hands-on expertise. A lifelong learner and advocate for continuous improvement, Anchal has acquired key industry certifications, including CCNA and AWS, and is an active member of Toastmasters International, reflecting a commitment to technical and communication excellence. An active contributor to the SRE community, Anchal has also taken the stage at VIT University, sharing insights on DevOps in the Mobile World, demonstrating her dedication to nurturing the next generation of tech professionals.