Table of Contents
Preface
Part 1 - Understanding the Basics of Who, What, and Why
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SRE Job Role – Activities and Responsibilities
Making this journey personal
SRE driving forces
SRE skills
SRE traits
Understanding the mindset and hobbies of an SRE
SRE affinity game
SRE guiding principles
SRE hobbies
DevOps engineers versus SRE versus others
DevOps and site reliability engineers
Software and site reliability engineers
Describing an SRE’s main responsibilities
An overview of the daily activities of an SRE
People that inspire
Jeremy’s recognition – Paul Tyma, former CTO, LendingTree
Rod’s recognition – Ingo Averdunk, Distinguished Engineer, IBM, and Gene Brown, Distinguished Engineer, Kyndryl
Summary
Further reading
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Fundamental Numbers – Reliability ...
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