The Site Reliability Workbook
Practical Ways to Implement SRE

In 2016, Google's Site Reliability Engineering book ignited an industry discussion on what it means to run production services today - and why reliability considerations are fundamental to service design. Now, Google engineers who worked on that bestseller introduce The Site Reliability Workbook, a hands-on companion that uses concrete examples to show you how to put SRE principles and practices to work in your environment.

This new workbook not only combines practical examples from Google's experiences, but also provides case studies from Google's Cloud Platform customers who underwent this journey. Evernote, The Home Depot, The New York Times, and other companies outline hard-won experiences of what worked for them and what didn't.

Dive into this workbook and learn how to flesh out your own SRE practice, no matter what size your company is.

You'll learn :
- How to run reliable services in environments you don't completely control—like cloud
- Practical applications of how to create, monitor, and run your services via Service Level Objectives
- How to convert existing ops teams to SRE—including how to dig out of operational overload
- Methods for starting SRE from either greenfield or brownfield

Dave started his career designing and developing software applications and information systems to carry sensitive data over both wired and wireless networks for clients such as the U.S. Army, the Treasury Department, the Secret Service, and the National Guard Bureau. For his work, Dave received a civilian commendation from the U.S. Army. In 1997, Dave founded one of the first business divisions in the U.S. to develop custom applications for the Palm. His success at developing a solution for synching data between handheld devices and corporate back-end systems led to the creation of RiverBed Technologies in 1998. Riverbed's Scout™ software was eventually licensed to nearly every major manufacturer of handheld devices in the world. In 2000, Dave was named a Mobile Innovator of the Year by Mobile Computing Magazine. In 2000, Riverbed was acquired by Aether Systems for over $1 billion. Dave then joined Omnisky as Chief Product Officer, where he designed and built the company's products to provide wireless e-mail and Internet services to mobile devices. The Omnisky service offering received an Editor's Choice award from PC Magazine. In 2003, Dave struck out on his own and co-founded Reality Mobile. Today, Dave continues to provide vision and planning for deploying cutting-edge mobile computing products to solve real-world problems acutely felt by Reality Mobile’s customers.