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Becoming a Rockstar SRE
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Becoming a Rockstar SRE

by Jeremy Proffitt, Rod Anami L. Anami
April 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
420 pages
10h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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8

Reliable Architecture – Systems Strategy and Design

As most of you should know by now, reliability doesn’t start in the app code development but in the solution architecture design. As we said at the beginning, SREs also have architectural skills. They need to review architectural diagrams, application topologies, and solution designs to spot areas where reliability is unclear.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main sections:

  • Designing for reliability
  • Splitting and balancing the workload
  • Failing over – almost as good
  • Scaling up and out – horizontal versus vertical
  • In practice – applying what you’ve learned

In this chapter, we will define how to break up the workload among multiple workers, whether servers, containers, or serverless. ...

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