September 2026
Intermediate to advanced
771 pages
21h 34m
English
book
Site Reliability Engineering, 2nd Edition
by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Christof Leng, David Huska, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy
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Brief Table of Contents (Not Yet Final)
Part 1: SRE in Context
Chapter 1: Introduction: Modeling What We Do and Why
Chapter 2: The Value of Reliability
Chapter 3: Trends in Production
Part 2: Sociotechnical Foundations
Chapter 4: The Cultural Context of SRE
Chapter 5: SRE Hiring, Training, and Career Management
Chapter 6: Organizational Structures for SRE
Chapter 7: SRE Engagement Models (unavailable)
Part 3: Situational Awareness and Continuous Preparedness
Chapter 8: Service Level Objectives
Chapter 9: Observability and Monitoring
Chapter 10: Incident Management and On-Call
Chapter 11: Learning From Incidents
Chapter 12: Safety Engineering for SRE with STPA and CAST
Part 4: Infrastructure Design
Chapter 13: Automation and Tooling
Chapter 14: Testing
Chapter 15: Capacity Planning
Chapter 16: Data Management
Part 5: Resilient Products and Emergent Reliability
Chapter 17: Designing for Resilience
Chapter 18: Platform Engineering in SRE
Chapter 19: SRE at the Tipping Point (unavailable)
Part 6: Outlook
Chapter 20: How SRE Supports AI
Chapter 21: How AI Supports SRE
Chapter 22: SRE in Diverse Environments
Chapter 23: Future of SRE (unavailable)
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