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"Site Reliability Engineering Foundations"

"Site Reliability Engineering Foundations" provides a comprehensive and practical exploration of the core concepts, practices, and strategies that underpin reliable, scalable, and secure systems in modern technology organizations. The book begins by tracing the origins and philosophy of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), clearly distinguishing its mindset and operational approach from traditional operations and DevOps. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of reliability as a feature, the deliberate embrace of risk, and the critical importance of automation, supported by actionable guidance on adopting SRE practices and aligning team structures for optimal impact.

Moving from theory to implementation, the book offers a detailed look into establishing meaningful reliability measures—such as SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets—and connecting them to real-world business objectives. It covers the architecture of reliable and distributed systems, including patterns for high availability, disaster recovery, and capacity planning, as well as the principles of observability, monitoring, and incident response. Throughout, the work emphasizes best practices in automation, infrastructure as code, and continuous integration/deployment to reduce toil, improve consistency, and accelerate recovery.

The text is rounded out with dedicated chapters on scaling SRE at the organizational level, embedding security and compliance into reliability workflows, and guiding reliability in cloud-native and distributed environments. Looking ahead, it explores emergent trends in data-driven reliability, community-led innovation, and the ethical dimensions of maintaining trustworthy systems in an interconnected world. "Site Reliability Engineering Foundations" is an authoritative and accessible reference for engineers, leaders, and organizations seeking to build and sustain robust, resilient services at scale.

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Rafbók: 18 juni 2025