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 StackOverflow

Site Reliability Engineering at Dropbox

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

Site Reliability Engineering at Salesforce

SRE@Google: Thousands of DevOps Since 2004

Transactional System Administration Is Killing Us and Must be Stopped

A hierarchy of SRE needs

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

SRE: An incomplete guide to cultural Narnia

[Video]

Putting Together Great SRE Teams

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

Toil: A Word Every Engineer Should Know

Engineering Reliability into Web Sites: Google SRE

DEVOPS & SRE AMA - Building High Performance Organizations

John Allspaw's AMA on Incident Analysis and Postmortems

How SysAdmins Devalue Themselves

The Softer Side of DevOps

SRE, noun. See also: confidence, trust.

Site Reliability Engineering with Stephen Weinberg

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!

The Ops Identity Crisis

The Irreproducibility Of Bugs In Large-Scale Production Systems

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

Microservices, DevOps and Production Complexity

Introducing Google Customer Reliability Engineering

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

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

SRE in the Small and in the Large

SBSRE Meetup: Different SRE roles and challenges(Netflix)

Panel: Who/What Is SRE?

Hope Is Not a Strategy

Tenets of SRE

Site Reliability Engineering Demystified

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?

Building the SRE Culture at LinkedIn

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

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

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

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

The SRE model

Onboarding New Site Reliability Engineers

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

A crash course in LinkedIn's global site operations

Google’s Site Reliability Engineering with Todd Underwood

What is Site Reliability Engineering? (VMware)

A Gentle Introduction to SRE

Understanding Site Reliability Engineering through Movies and Books

GOTO 2017 • Site Reliability Engineering at Google • Christof Leng

Tech Leadership in SRE

The Azure Podcast: Episode 227 - Azure SRE

The human scalability of "DevOps"

Podcast: Site Reliability Management with Mike Hiraga

How a cat inspired system reliability at Knowlarity

Getting Started with Site Reliability Engineering

"Practical Applications of the Dickerson Pyramid" by Nat Welch

LinkedIn’s Kurt Andersen Uncovers Blindspots in SRE Implementations

Interview with Betsy Beyer, Stephen Thorne of Google

Less Risk Through Greater Humanity - Dave Rensin

Getting Started with SRE - Stephen Thorne, Google

Building Successful SRE in Large Enterprises

Solving Reliability Fears with Site Reliability Engineering

SRE vs. DevOps: competing standards or close friends?

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

Reliability Engineering – The Essential Discipline for Complex Systems

The Modern Site Reliability Workbench on Top of OCI

SRE in the Third Age

About SRE and how (not) to apply it

Transitioning a typical engineering ops team into an SRE powerhouse

Making a Lion Bulletproof: SRE in Banking

Identifying and tracking toil using SRE principles

From Ops to SRE: Evolution of the OpenShift Dedicated Team

Meeting reliability challenges with SRE principles

A quick introduction to SRE principles

The SRE I Aspire to Be

Taming Operational Load with VMware CRE

SRE Cultural Values

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

What SREs have to do with project-based services?

Making operational work more visible

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

Panel: Educating SRE

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

New to an SRE team?

The Systems Engineering Side of Site Reliability Engineering

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

So you want to be a Site Reliability Engineer?

Spiraling Ops Debt & the SRE Coding Imperative

So you want to be an SRE?

Career Profiles/Site Reliability Engineer

What is the role of a Site Reliability Engineer?

Lynda.com: DevOps Foundations: Site Reliability Engineering

Incident Management Training: Wheel of Misfortune

Site Un-Reliability Engineering [Video Series]

The Ultimate Guide to Structuring a 90-Day Onboarding Plan

SRE fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs

How to Get Into SRE

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

How SRE teams are organized, and how to get started

Why SRE Documents Matter

How to get started with site reliability engineering (SRE)

Duties of a Site Reliability Engineering Manager

Designing distributed systems using NALSD flashcards

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

SRE Classroom: Distributed PubSub workshop

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

Practical Linux Infrastructure

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Learn concepts of automating and operating at scale from Google experts.

Observability Engineering: Achieving Production Excellence

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

Web Operations - Keeping the Data On Time

The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

Microservices in Production - Standard Principles and Requirements

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

Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud

[Sample chapter titled CPUs

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

The Human Side of Postmortems: Managing Stress and Cognitive Biases

Chaos Engineering: Building Confidence in System Behavior through Experiment

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

Antifragile Systems and Teams

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

Incident Management for Operations

Real-World SRE

Seeking SRE

What is SRE?

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

Chaos Engineering: Crash test your applications

A book on how to design and execute controlled software failure experiments.

97 Things Every SRE Should Know

Four Steps to Creating Effective Game Day Tests

The Linux Programming Interface

SRE Hiring

Hiring SREs at LinkedIn

Hiring Site Reliability Engineers

Hiring your first SRE

Growing the Site Reliability Team at LinkedIn: Hiring is Hard

Engineering Manager - Site Reliability Engineering Interview Preparation

The Realities of the Job of Delivering 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

(Krishnan)

SRE Hour: Tech Talks by Box & Yelp

Simplicity: A Prerequisite for Reliability

The Two Sides to Google Infrastructure for Everyone Else

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

The Ripple Effect Of Outages And Downtime Cannot Be Underestimated

The infrastructure behind Twitter: efficiency and optimization

Dickerson's Hierarchy of Reliability

The Morning Paper on Operability

Production is all that matters

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

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

Don't gamble when it comes to reliability

Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure

The Infrastructure Behind Twitter: Scale

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

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

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

Reliable releases and rollbacks - CRE life lessons

How release canaries can save your bacon - CRE life lessons

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

Every Day Is Monday in Operations

Under the Hood: Ensuring Site Reliability

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

A Google SRE explores GitHub reliability with BigQuery

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

Chaos Engineering resources

star: - A curated list of awesome chaos engineering resources.

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

Why you should pick strong consistency, whenever possible

The Network is Reliable

Are You Load Balancing Wrong?

How production engineers support global events on Facebook

Google: A Collection Of Best Practices For Production Services

Canary Analysis Service

Tips for High Availability

Progressive Service Architecture At Auth0

Google Cloud Production Guideline

production readiness

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

Top Seven Myths of Robust Systems

Taming chaos: Preparing for your next incident

PID Loops and the Art of Keeping Systems Stable

Are you ready for production?

Slides

Production Checklist for Web Apps on Kubernetes

Finding a problem at the bottom of the Google stack

Rethinking Task Size in SRE

How maintenance windows affect your error budget

The Production Readiness Spectrum

Generic mitigations

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

Resiliency Planning for High-Traffic Events

Using Fault Injection Testing to Improve DoorDash Reliability

A Working Theory-of-Monitoring

The Evolution of Monitoring Systems at Google - Tony Rippy

Monitoring without Infrastructure @ Airbnb

Monitoring distributed systems

Observability at Uber Engineering: Past, Present, Future

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

Building Twitter’s Next-Gen Alerting System

Instrumentation: Worst case performance matters

Instrumentation: What does 'uptime' mean?

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

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

Detecting outliers and anomalies in realtime at Datadog

How to Monitor the SRE Golden Signals

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

The Many Ways Your Monitoring Is Lying to You

GitOps Part 3 - Observability

Want to Debug Latency?

Debugging Latency in Go 1.11

Alerting on SLOs like Pros

Applied Alerting Philosophy

Observations on Observability

Deploys: It's Not Actually About Fridays

Site Reliability Engineering Best Practices for Data Pipelines

Elastic Observability in SRE and Incident Response

Error Budget Policy - Part 1 - Adoption at Expedia Group

Error Budget Policy - Part 2 - Practices at Expedia Group

Being an On-Call Engineer: A Google SRE Perspective

Inside Atlassian: how our site reliability engineers do incident management

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

Incident Response at Heroku

(McGranaghan)

Who's On Call?

SysAdvent - Day 6 - No More On-Call Martyrs

On Being On Call

The On-Call Handbook

Incident management at Google — adventures in SRE-land

Run Book / Operations Manual template

Automating Your Oncall: Open Sourcing Fossor and Ascii Etch

Project STAR*: Streamlining Our On-Call Process

SRE@Xero: Managing Incidents Part I

SRE@Xero: Managing Incidents Part II

How To Establish a High Severity Incident Management Program

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?

Oncall and Sustainable Software Development

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)

3 Ways to Minimize the Impact of High Severity Incidents

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

Moving Past Shallow Incident Data

Sustainable On-Call

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

Incident Management at Netflix Velocity

Incidents, fixes, and the day after

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

Checklists: a stupidly simple but valuable operational gift

How to write a status page update

Atlassian Incident Handbook

PagerDuty Incident Response Handbook

Documents that describe parts of the PagerDuty Incident Response process. It provides information not only on preparing for an incident, but also what to do during and after. Source is available on GitHub.

Avoiding Burnout for SREs

Better On-Call the SRE way

Managing Incidents at Monzo

Making On-Call Not Suck

How we (Monzo) respond to incidents

How we’ve evolved on-call at Monzo

Code Yellow: When Operations Isn’t Perfect

MTTR is dead, long live CIRT

Extended Dreyfus Model for Incident Lifecycles

Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis

Incident insights from NASA, NTSB, and the CDC

How to avoid On-Call Burnout the SRE Way

My week shadowing a GitLab Site Reliability Engineer

How our production team runs the weekly on-call handover

Writing Runbook Documentation When You’re An SRE

Incident response, programs and you(r startup)

An Incident Command Training Handbook

Shrinking the time to mitigate production incidents

Incident writeup as sociological storytelling

Elephant in the Blameless War Room: Accountability

Naming names in incident writeups

Building On-Call Culture at GitHub

A collection of post-mortems

(GitHub)

Collection of Kubernetes Failure Stories

fire::fire::fire::fire::fire: - A compiled list of links to public failure stories related to Kubernetes.

Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture

📰 - Etsy's Code as Craft blog discusses how they look at mistakes with a perspective of learning through blameless post-mortems.

A Tale of Postmortems

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

SysAdvent - Day 1 - Why You Need a Postmortem Process

Etsy’s Debriefing Facilitation Guide for Blameless Postmortems

Writing Your First Postmortem

How to Write Great Outage Post-Mortems

A collection of postmortem templates

Embracing Feedback

Postmortem Action Items: Plan the Work and Work the Plan

Social Issues In Postmortems

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

Postmortem culture: how you can learn from failure

re:Work - Postmortem discussion template

Post-mortems to the rescue

Postmortem Action Items: Plan the Work and Work the Plan

Why Every Company Can Benefit from a Blameless Culture

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

Our incident postmortem template

Learn out of mistakes. Postmortems to the rescue.

Improving Postmortem Practices with Veteran Google SRE, Steve McGhee

Inhumanity of Root Cause Analysis

Capacity Planning

SouthBay SRE: Cloud Capacity Planning

Intent-based Capacity Planning and Autoscaling with Kubernetes

How do you do Capacity Planning

How Back Market SREs prepared for Black Friday

How Back Market prepared for Black Friday with k6 based load testing.

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

Service Level Agreements in the Cloud: Who cares?

SysAdvent- Day 20 - How to set and monitor SLAs

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

Service Levels and Error Budgets

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

The Calculus of Service Availability

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

Standardize cloud SLA availability with numerical performance data

Best practices to develop SLAs for cloud computing

A Practical Guide to SLAs

Building good SLOs - CRE life lessons

No Grumpy Humans and Other Site Reliability Engineering Lessons from Google

Consequences of SLO violations — CRE life lessons

Service Level Objectives in Practice

SRE Consensus Building

An example escalation policy — CRE life lessons

Error Budget Calculator

Understanding error budget overspend - part one - CRE life lessons

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

SRE fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs

If you are in the business of cloud services, these metrics are certainly great KPIs.

SLOs & You: A Guide To Service Level Objectives

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

Nines are Not Enough: Meaningful Metrics for Clouds

How many nines is my storage system?

Don't follow the sun.

The Tyranny of the SLA

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

DevOpsDays Chicago 2019 - The Art of SLOs

The Art of SLOs Workshop Materials

How to Include Latency in SLO-Based Alerting

Succeeding With Service Level Objectives

Putting customers first with SLIs and SLOs

SRE Leadership: Have Tiered SLAs

How SLOs Enable Fast, Reliable Application Delivery

The Tail at Scale

The Tail at Scale Revisited

Defining SLOs for services with dependencies

Service Level Disagreements

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

SLI Deep Dive

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

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

Calculating composite SLA

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

Performance Checklists for SREs

South Bay SRE Meetup - Netflix Cloud Performance Team

Software Performance Analysis Guided By SLOs

A framework for pragmatic performance engineering

Go Language for Ops and Site Reliability Engineering

Go for SREs using Python

Operability in Go

Go Reliability and Durability at Dropbox

What is SRE (Site Reliability Engineering)?

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"

Site reliability engineering kicks rote tasks out of IT ops

Notes on Site Reliability Engineering

Adventures in SRE-land: Welcome to Google Mission Control

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

Site Reliability Engineers: “We solve cooler problems”

SREcon17: Brave new world of site reliability engineering

Open AWS guide

Links to the Billing and Cost Management section which details the broad characteristics of billing for a cloud provider.

Commentary on Site Reliability Engineering

Site Reliability Engineering: 4 Things to Know

Looking for SRE Success? Then Find the Intrapreneurs!

What Team Structure is Right for DevOps to Flourish?

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

Building blameless working environment

SRE Adoption Report

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

The Role of Site Reliability Engineering, Today and Tomorrow

SRE as a Lifestyle Choice

SRECon EMEA 2019 Recap

Life of an SRE at Google - JC van Winkel

Site Reliability Engineering for Native Mobile Apps - Abhijith Krishnappa

Case study: Halodoc adaptation of SRE principles for Native Mobile Apps

SRE Best Practices by InfraCloud

#sre channel at Hangops Slack

Discussion of Site Reliability Engineering generally.

USENIX SREcon Slack

Brendan Gregg's Blog

Highly Technical Blog Posts About Systems Internals, Performance and SRE.

Everything Sysadmin

Blog Posts About SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE by Tom Limoncelli.

High Scalability

Technical Blog Posts About Systems Architecture.

rachelbythebay

Techincal Blog Posts.

Susan J. Fowler

Various blog posts about SRE, Software Engineering and Microservices.

SysAdvent

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

Stephen Thorne's Blog

Blog Posts About SRE

Increment

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

GopherSRE

Blog Posts about Go and SRE.

Cindy Sridharan

Blog posts about distributed systems and their management.

Blameless Blog

Blog posts about SRE culture and practices.

Resilience Roundup

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

Squadcast Blog

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

FireHydrant Blog

Posts about complex systems, incident response, and SRE best practices.

Rootly Blog

Incident management best practices and guides.

incident.io Blog

Guides, advice and resources on incident management and response.

Logit.io Blog

Resources on log management, SRE and devOps.

DevOpsLinks

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

KubeWeekly

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

SRE Weekly

Weekly Site Reliability Newsletter.

O’Reilly Systems Engineering and Operations Newsletter

Weekly systems engineering and operations news and insights from industry insiders.

ChaosEngineering.news

Chaos Engineering newsletter. All things Chaos Engineering, directly to your inbox!

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.

SRECon Conferences

The Official SRE Conference.

LISA Conferences

Prominent Conference About SysAdmin/DevOps/SRE.

SRE Tech Talks

SRE Talks Hosted by Google.

South Bay Site Reliability Engineering (Sunnyvale, CA) Meetup

A Group For Individuals Who Tackle Reliability Challenges For Web-Scale Systems.

San Francisco Reliability Engineering

A Group Of People Who Are Passionate About Reliable, Performant Software Systems.

Site Reliability Engineering Munich, Germany

SRE Meetup in the greater area of Oktoberfest city.

ADDO - All Day DevOps

A 24 hour conference that is completely online and free.

Site Reliability Engineering Paris, France

SRE Meetup in the city of light.

Site Reliability Engineering India

SRE Meetup India

Google SRE Twitter Account

Google's SRE Twitter Account.

SREBook

The Official Twitter Account of Site Reliability Engineering Book.

SREcon

SRECon's Official Twitter Account.

SREWorkbook

The Official Twitter Account of Site Reliability Workbook.

The SRE Dev

SRE-related Posts from dev.to.

Twitter SRE

The Official Twitter Account of Twitter's SRE team.

Twitter SRE Weekly

The Official Twitter Account of SRE Weekly Newsletter.

USENIX Association

The Official USENIX Twitter Account.

Awesome SRE Tools

A curated list of Site Reliability and Production Engineering tools

List of Continuous Integration services

by @ligurio – Comparison of cloud based CI services.

SRE cheat sheet

A cheat sheet for Site Reliability Engineering principles and numbers

Blameless / Resilience in Action

Google SRE Prodcast

o11y Observability Podcast

On Call Nightmares (retired)

Making of the SRE Omelette