Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Interview Preparation Guide

This repository is an attempt to consolidate useful resources for Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) interview preparation.

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Basics

• [ ] Simple: What happens when you type in ‘www.cnn.com’ in your browser?
• [ ] Detailed: What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?

Linux

Boot Process

• [ ] An introduction to the Linux boot and startup processes
• [ ] What happens when we turn on computer?
• [ ] What happens when we turn on computer?
• [ ] From Power up to login prompt

Filesystem

• [ ] Understanding Inodes
• [ ] Understand UNIX / Linux Inodes Basics with Examples
• [ ] Understanding proc filesystem
• [ ] Common Mount Options
• [ ] Understanding Linux filesystems: ext4 and beyond

Kernel

• [ ] Explain the basics of Linux kernel
• [ ] Kernel Space and User Space
• [ ] Linux Kernel Process Management
• [ ] Linux Addressing
• [ ] Linux Kernel Memory Management
• [ ] STACK AND HEAP
• [ ] Paging and Segmentation
• [ ] Linux Kernel System Calls
• [ ] The Virtual Filesystem
• [ ] Concurrency and Race Conditions
• [ ] Memory Leak
• [ ] What is a kernel Panic?

Troubleshooting

• [ ] Linux troubleshooting tools
• [ ] Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds
• [ ] strace
• [ ] lsof
• [ ] Linux system debugging
• [ ] SaaS where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills

Networking

• [ ] Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
• [ ] Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking
• [ ] Multi-tier load-balancing with Linux
• [ ] Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying
• [ ] Load Balancing Algorithms

Containers

• [ ] Introduction to Docker and Containers
• [ ] Containers Patterns
• [ ] Docker Container Anti Patterns
• [ ] Anti-Patterns When Building Container Images

Kubernetes

• [ ] Deploying and Scaling Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes
• [ ] Demystifying the Kubernetes Iceberg
• [ ] What happens when ... Kubernetes edition!
• [ ] Kubernetes Production Patterns
• [ ] Kubernetes production best practices
• [ ] A Guide to the Kubernetes Networking Model
• [ ] 47 Things To Become a Kubernetes Expert
• [ ] Kubernetes Best Practices 101
• [ ] 15 Kubernetes Best Practices Every Developer Should Know
• [ ] THE KUBERNETES NETWORKING GUIDE

Infrastructure as code / Configuration management

• [ ] Terraform
• [ ] A Comprehensive Guide to Terraform
• [ ] Ansible
• [ ] Getting Started With Terraform on AWS

Databases

• [ ] Things You Should Know About Databases
• [ ] 7 Database Paradigms
• [ ] CAP theorem
• [ ] Evolutionary Database Design
• [ ] ACID vs BASE in Databases
• [ ] Understanding Database Sharding
• [ ] Database Replication
• [ ] SQL vs. NoSQL Database: When to Use, How to Choose
• [ ] How do database indexes work?

CI/CD

• [ ] 7 Pipeline Design Patterns for Continuous Delivery
• [ ] CI/CD patterns
• [ ] Six Strategies for Application Deployment

Clouds

• [ ] The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
• [ ] Learning Azure
• [ ] Hands-On Training with GCP

Programming

Python

• [ ] Python Basics
• [ ] Python For Everyone
• [ ] Complete Python Tutorial

Go (Golang)

• [ ] A tour of Go
• [ ] Go by Example
• [ ] Go Tutorials & Examples
• [ ] Learn Go with Tests
• [ ] Getting up and running with Go
• [ ] Effective Go
• [ ] Go Design Patterns
• [ ] Go Memory Management
• [ ] Style Guide
• [ ] Style Decisions
• [ ] Best Practices

Big O Notation, Algorithms and Data Structures

• [ ] AlgoExperts
• [ ] Hacking a Google Interview – Handout 1
• [ ] Hacking a Google Interview – Handout 2
• [ ] Hacking a Google Interview – Handout 3

System design

• [ ] SystemsExpert course from AlgoExpert
• [ ] Grokking the System Design Interview
• [ ] The System Design Primer
• [ ] Crack the System Design Interview
• [ ] System design interview for IT companies
• [ ] Web Architecture 101
• [ ] What's in a Production Web Application?
• [ ] Distributed systems

System design examples

• [ ] Designing WhatsApp
• [ ] Designing Uber
• [ ] Designing Tinder
• [ ] Designing Instagram
• [ ] Designing Netflix

Monitoring

• [ ] SLOs & You: A Guide To Service Level Objectives
• [ ] Setting up Service Monitoring — The Why’s and What’s
• [ ] How NOT to Measure Latency

Processes

• [ ] The practical guide to incident management
• [ ] Incident Response
• [ ] Postmortems
• [ ] Runbooks
• [ ] Identifying and tracking toil using SRE principles
• [ ] Building SRE from Scratch
• [ ] SRE at Google: Our complete list of CRE life lessons
• [ ] Incident Management vs. Incident Response - What's the Difference?
• [ ] Practical Guide to SRE: Using SLOs to Increase Reliability
• [ ] Practical Guide to SRE: Automating On-Call
• [ ] Going from Zero to SRE
• [ ] An Incident Command Training Handbook

Resume

• [ ] SRE Complete Resume Writing Guide

Interview

SRE interview process

• [ ] How to hire talent
• [ ] Recruitment process for a Google job (SRE, Site Reliability Engineer)

Interview Questions

• [ ] A collection of questions to practice with for SRE interviews
• [ ] SRE Interview Questions
• [ ] Sysadmin Test Questions
• [ ] Kubernetes job interview questions
• [ ] DevOps Guide
• [ ] Questions I ask in SRE interviews
• [ ] DevOps Roadmap: Learn to become a DevOps Engineer or SRE

Blogposts

• [ ] SRE Interviews in Silicon Valley
• [ ] Preparing the SRE interview
• [ ] How to Get Into SRE
• [ ] My Job Interview at Google
• [ ] Path to Site Reliability Management
• [ ] Becoming a Site Reliability Engineer
• [ ] How I get a job at Google as SRE

Books

SRE books

• [ ] Site Reliability Engineering
• [ ] The Site Reliability Workbook
• [ ] Seeking SRE
• [ ] Building Secure and Reliable Systems
• [ ] Implementing Service Level Objectives

Linux

• [ ] Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)
• [ ] UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition)
• [ ] Linux Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition

Networking

• [ ] TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1

Troubleshooting and Performance

• [ ] Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud
• [ ] Systems Performance, 2nd Edition

Courses

• [ ] Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability
• [ ] School of SRE