Site Reliability Engineering Foundation
Improving service reliability and system resiliency in rapidly changing and more complex tech environments makes the SRE profile one of the fastest-growing job roles in IT.
Course Introduction
Course Goal
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1.1 What is Site Reliability Engineering?
1.2 SRE & DevOps: What is the Difference?
Video - What's the Difference Between DevOps and SRE? with Seth Vargo and Liz Fong-Jones (Google) (05:10)
FREE PREVIEWDiscussion - Principles & Practices
1.3 SRE Principles & Practices
Exercise - What do we do all day?
Case Story - Bloomberg
Module 1 Quiz
2.1 Service Level Objectives
Video - Risk and Error Budgets with Seth Vargo and Liz Fong-Jones of Google (06:17)
FREE PREVIEW2.2 Error Budgets
Discussion - Enforcing the Availability SLO
Case Story - Evernote & Home Depot
2.3 Error Budget Policies
Exercise - SLO’s for Your Organization
Module 2 Quiz
3.1 What is Toil?
3.2 Why Toil is Bad
Exercise - Reducing Toil
3.3 Doing Something About Toil
Resource: Invent More, Toil Less
FREE PREVIEWVideo - Pragmatic Automation with Max Luebbe of Google Cloud (04:45)
FREE PREVIEWDiscussion - Benefits of toil reduction on individuals & teams
Case Story - Accenture
Module 3 Quiz
4.1 SLI’s - Service Level Indicators
Discussion - What Do You Monitor Now?
Video - SLI & Reliability Deep-Dive with David N. Blank-Edelman (Microsoft) (08:35)
FREE PREVIEW4.2 Monitoring
Case Story - Trivago
Resource - Case Story - Catchpoint Trivago
FREE PREVIEW4.3 Observability
Exercise - Set measurable objectives for your service
Module 4 Quiz
5.1 Automation Defined
Discussion - Automation “Greatest Hits”
5.2 Automation Focus
5.3 Hierarchy of Automation Types
Case Story - Standard Chartered
5.4 Secure Automation
5.5 Automation Tools
Exercise - How Much Automation Do You Have?
Video - Ironies of Automation: A Comedy in Three Parts with Tanner Lund (Microsoft) (18:32)
FREE PREVIEWModule 5 Quiz