What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction, explores the relatively new SRE field and outlines the practical framework of the book.

Chapter 2, Monitoring, talks about the tools and methodologies used when monitoring. After this chapter, a good experiment for you would be to set up monitoring on services, even if they are just fake services written for testing, and see if you can see how they change over time.

Chapter 3, Incident Response, explains how to respond to outages, and preparing your team for the worst. We also focus on setting up on-call rotations best practices around working together as a team and on building processes to make incidents as low stress as possible.

Chapter 4, Postmortems, takes you through the act of writing a postmortem ...

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