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Practical Site Reliability Engineering
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Practical Site Reliability Engineering

by Pethuru Raj Chelliah, Shreyash Naithani, Shailender Singh
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
390 pages
10h 8m
English
Packt Publishing
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The importance of SREs 

An SRE is responsible for ensuring the systems availability, performance-monitoring, and incident response of the cloud IT platforms and services. SREs must make sure that all software applications entering production environments fully comply with a set of important requirements, such as diagrams, network topology illustrations, service dependency details, monitoring and logging plans, backups, and so on. A software application may fully comply with all of the functional requirements, but there are other sources for disruption and interruption. There may be hardware degradation, networking problems, high usage of resources, or slow responses from applications, and services could happen at any time. SREs always need ...

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ISBN: 9781788839563