Site Reliability Engineering, 2nd Edition

Chapter 3. Trends in Production

By Derek Remund, Garrett Plasky, and Roman Seibel

with David Grizzanti, Faraz Khan, Nick Soda, Oleg Klyudt, Pereira Braga, Pim van Pelt, Saurabh Phaltane, Garrett Holthaus, and Carmela Quinito

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When the first edition of this book was published in 2016, production infrastructure at Google differed significantly from that of other businesses. We provided an examination of production at Google and a recognition of trends already occurring in the industry at-large. Since then, concepts like pervasive containerization, user-centric observability, and universal production platforms have led to widespread fundamental changes in the table stakes for running modern software at scale.

The timing of Google’s founding and its subsequent growth rate may have led the company to be a first mover in developing many technologies and patterns that have since become widely adopted, or at least accepted as useful methods. However, much of this sea change should be credited to the ...