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Real-World SRE

Real-World SRE

By : Nat Welch
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Real-World SRE

Real-World SRE

4.5 (10)
By: Nat Welch

Overview of this book

Real-World SRE is the go-to survival guide for the software developer in the middle of catastrophic website failure. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has emerged on the frontline as businesses strive to maximize uptime. This book is a step-by-step framework to follow when your website is down and the countdown is on to fix it. Nat Welch has battle-hardened experience in reliability engineering at some of the biggest outage-sensitive companies on the internet. Arm yourself with his tried-and-tested methods for monitoring modern web services, setting up alerts, and evaluating your incident response. Real-World SRE goes beyond just reacting to disaster—uncover the tools and strategies needed to safely test and release software, plan for long-term growth, and foresee future bottlenecks. Real-World SRE gives you the capability to set up your own robust plan of action to see you through a company-wide website crisis. The final chapter of Real-World SRE is dedicated to acing SRE interviews, either in getting a first job or a valued promotion.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Index

Analyzing past postmortems


Once everything is said and done, it is good to go back and review past postmortems. Once a quarter, or once a year, collect all of the postmortems and try and pull together some metrics. These metrics can help to give you an insight into what your team is doing to respond to incidents:

  • Time to recovery

  • Time between failures

  • Number of alerts fired versus postmortems generated

  • Number of alerts fired per on-call rotation

MTTR and MTBF

Outside of incidents, two metrics that are often talked about are mean time to recovery (MTTR) and mean time between failures (MTBF). Looking at these numbers across a year can show how your ability to respond to incidents is improving or changing. Note how the goal is to minimize the time until recovery, not necessarily to minimize the time until the cause of the outage is fixed. If MTBF is low, it might mean that your team is not investing in testing enough, and this is also probably draining your team. If MTTR is high, it probably means...

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