SRE in the Small and in the Large

This course presents SRE as a set of engineering principles applicable to both small startups and large organizations. It examines monitoring, load testing, application state, sharding, distributed applications, consensus, and microservices tradeoffs.

Syllabus

Introduction
Agenda
Introductions
SRE vs Software Engineering
SRE is a new way of engineering
What does SRE do
SRE in large companies
We dont have infinite chocolate
Success in Google
The SRE is doomed
Not all companies are doing SRE
Mini Europe
Story Time
Story Time 2
Pivot to the General
Load Tests
Export Application State
Monitor
Dependencies
Sharding
Distributed Applications
Little Known Fact
Most General Objection
Tradeoff
Exporting Application State
Debugging Without Application State
Bad Monitoring
Kitty and Bear
Dependency Testing
Stack Overflow
Precious Servers
Pack Sauce
Distributed Consensus
Identifiers
Microservices
Arguments against microservices