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.

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