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Real-World SRE
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Real-World SRE

by Nat Welch
August 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
340 pages
7h 30m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 9. Networking Foundations

When I started as an SRE, one of the topics that I found most daunting, and incredibly hard to find good writing on, was networking. Networking is one of the most integral parts of our industry, though, because it is how communication happens between services. Without networking, we would not have distributed systems or the internet. I personally wouldn't be able to save copies of this book into Dropbox, while flying between New York and San Francisco, nor would I be able to work regularly with my editors in the United Kingdom and India. However, despite modern networking being wonderful, it also needs to be resilient to deal with physical problems that constantly occur, such as cables getting cut, weather interfering ...

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