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Overview

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is Google's approach to running production systems. It applies software engineering principles to operations, treating reliability as a feature that can be measured, budgeted, and engineered.

References

• Book: "Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems" (O'Reilly, 2016)
• Workbook: "The Site Reliability Workbook" (O'Reilly, 2018)
• Online: https://sre.google/

Core Philosophy

"Hope is not a strategy."

"SRE is what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an operations function."

"Reliability is the most important feature."