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Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production SystemsBook

by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy, 2016

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Gergely Orosz
Writer of The Pragmatic Engineer newsletter and books on software engineering careers; previously an engineering manager at Uber, Skype and Skyscanner.
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a good overview of SRE at Google. For those who worked at places with oncall, much of the first part of the book will likely be very familiar. Keep in mind that your mileage might vary: what works at Google scale, might not be the ideal fit for your use case.

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