Site Reliability Engineering

What You Will Learn

• 1 Learn the foundations of Site Reliability Engineering, including its origins, core principles, and how it differs from traditional operations and DevOps practices.
• 2 Understand Service Level Objectives, Service Level Indicators, and Error Budgets as the primary tools for defining and managing reliability agreements.
• 3 Apply monitoring and observability strategies using metrics, logs, and traces to gain actionable insight into system behavior and performance.
• 4 Explore incident management lifecycles, including detection, response, escalation, and structured post-incident review processes.
• 5 Understand toil identification, measurement, and elimination as a core SRE practice for freeing engineering time for high-value work.
• 6 Apply capacity planning and demand forecasting techniques to ensure systems scale efficiently ahead of traffic and growth.
• 7 Build reliable deployment pipelines using progressive delivery, feature flags, canary releases, and automated rollback strategies.
• 8 Analyze distributed systems reliability patterns including redundancy, load balancing, circuit breakers, and graceful degradation.
• 9 Implement chaos engineering principles to proactively test system resilience and uncover hidden failure modes before they affect users.
• 10 Develop on-call practices, alerting strategies, and runbook design that reduce cognitive load and improve response times for on-call engineers.
• 11 Understand organizational SRE models, team topologies, and how to embed reliability culture across engineering and product teams.
• 12 Create a personal SRE practice roadmap by integrating tools, processes, and reliability metrics into a coherent improvement program.