Site Reliability Engineer guide

Collection of books, research papers, videos and articles for mastering Site Reliability Engineer proficiency.

Books

• [ ] Modern Operating Systems Tanenbaum, Andrew S.
• [x] UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook Nemeth, Evi
• [ ] TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3: TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the Unix (R) Domain Protocols Stevens, W. Richard
• [ ] Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud
• [x] Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems - Free to read online(https://landing.google.com/sre/book/index.html)
• [x] The Site Reliability Workbook
• [ ] The datacenter as a computer: an introduction to the design of warehouse-scale machines
• [ ] The Practice of System and Network Administration
• [ ] The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems
• [ ] Time Management for System Administrators
• [ ] The Go Programming Language Donovan, Alan A. A.
• [x] Think Python Downey, Allen B.
• [ ] The Linux Command Line Jr., William E. Shotts
• [ ] Linux Server Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips and Tools Flickenger, Rob
• [ ] Programming Pearls Bentley, Jon L.
• [ ] Web Operations - Keeping the Data On Time
• [ ] Microservices in Production
• [ ] Docker up and running
• [x] Kubernetes Up and Running By Brendan Burns, Kelsey Hightower, Joe Beda

Research papers

• [x] Large-scale cluster management at Google with Borg
• [ ] MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters
• [ ] Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
• [x] On designing and deploying internet-scale services
• [ ] Mesos: a platform for fine-grained resource sharing in the data center
• [x] Google: Reliable Cron across the Planet

Technologies

• [ ] Aurora
• [x] Docker
• [ ] Fluentd
• [ ] ElasticSearch
• [ ] GCE
• [ ] Hadoop
• [x] Kubernetes
• [ ] Mesos
• [ ] Kernel Based Virtual Machine
• [ ] Protocol Buffers
• [ ] Spark
• [ ] VMWare

Networking

• [ ] Computer networking research papers
• [ ] High Performance Browser Networking

Monitoring and alerting

• [x] Prometheus
• [x] PromCon 2016

SRE best practice

• [x] Software engineering at Google
• [x] Keys to SRE by Ben Treynor
• [x] How Container Clusters Like Kubernetes Change Operations
• [x] 10 Years of Crashing Google
• [x] Release Engineering Best Practices at Google
• [x] From Zero to Hero: Recommended Practices for Training your Ever-Evolving SRE Teams
• [x] Transactional System Administration Is Killing Us and Must be Stopped
• [x] Lessons Learned From Scaling Uber To 2000 Engineers, 1000 Services, And 8000 Git Repositories
• [x] Netflix: 190 Countries and 5 CORE SREs
• [x] Performance Checklists for SREs
• [x] Notes on SRE book
• [x] SYSADMIN (Un)Reliability Budgets

Trainings

• [ ] Google cloud code labs
• [ ] Google cloud architect certification

More

• [ ] Google SRE resources
• [ ] USENIX SRE conferences
• [x] SREcon 2016
• [ ] awesome-sre
• [ ] Google Interview University
• [x] Thenewstack ebook series
• [ ] Web development with Go
• [ ] SREcon 2018