This book provides a rich collection of the essential foundation and advanced practices for understanding and running SRE. The first part gives a brief historical trace of how SRE is born, of its roots in DevOps, highlighting its relevance in the context of minimizing downtime and achieving a better software reliability. The book explores the core SRE principles such as service level objectives (SLOs), automation and incident management. The focus is on building resilient systems that can take faults, that will balance it, and mitigate against disasters. Readers will learn what observability is, real time monitoring, and post mortem process. The book also goes on to explain automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines and the rise of AI to use in incident response and self-healing systems. Last, it covers organizational adoption of SRE, promotion of collaboration, error budgeting and managing multi cloud environments. Engineers, architects, and leaders who wish to instill reliability and resilience in modern software operations should read this book.
