site reliability engineer guide

Site Reliability Engineer guide

Collection of books, research papers, videos and articles for mastering Site Reliability Engineer proficiency.

Books

SRE

• Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
• Site Reliability Engineering: The Site Reliability Workbook
• Building Secure & Reliable Systems

Kubernetes platform and applications

• Docker up and running
• Kubernetes Up and Running By Brendan Burns, Kelsey Hightower, Joe Beda
• Microservices in Production
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services - Free to download
• Software Engineering at Google - Free to download

Compute, Networking and Storage - theory and practice

• Modern Operating Systems Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
• UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook Nemeth, Evi
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the Unix (R) Domain Protocols Stevens, W. Richard
• Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud
• The datacenter as a computer: an introduction to the design of warehouse-scale machines
• The Practice of System and Network Administration
• The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems
• Linux Server Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools Flickenger, Rob
• Web Operations - Keeping the Data On Time

Programming

• The Linux Command Line Jr., William E. Shotts
• Shell Scripting: How to Automate Command Line Tasks Using Bash Scripting and Shell Programming
• The Go Programming Language Donovan, Alan A. A.
• Think Python Downey, Allen B.
• Programming Pearls Bentley, Jon L.
• Code Complete 2, Steve McConnell

Other

• Time Management for System Administrators

Research papers

• Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
• On designing and deploying internet-scale services
• Mesos: a platform for fine-grained resource sharing in the data center
• Google: Reliable Cron across the Planet

Technologies

• Kubernetes
• CNCF landscape
• Aurora
• Docker
• Fluentd
• ElasticSearch
• Hadoop
• Mesos
• Kernel Based Virtual Machine
• Spark
• VMWare

SRE best practice

• Software engineering at Google
• Keys to SRE by Ben Treynor
• How Container Clusters Like Kubernetes Change Operations
• 10 Years of Crashing Google
• Release Engineering Best Practices at Google
• From Zero to Hero: Recommended Practices for Training your Ever-Evolving SRE Teams
• Transactional System Administration Is Killing Us and Must be Stopped
• Lessons Learned From Scaling Uber To 2000 Engineers, 1000 Services, And 8000 Git Repositories
• Netflix: 190 Countries and 5 CORE SREs
• Performance Checklists for SREs
• Notes on SRE book
• SYSADMIN (Un)Reliability Budgets

Trainings

• Google cloud code labs
• Google cloud architect certification
• Google SRE resources

Conferences

• USENIX SRE conferences
• Kubecon and Cloud Native
• PromCon
• GrafanaCon
• DockerCon
• HashiConf
• DevOpscon