Show HN: I wrote a book on Site Reliability Engineering

[dm03514]

Hello! I just published a book on Site Reliability Engineering.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QNZC2LL

This book is a collection of 28 chapters on SRE concepts, such as observability, monitoring, Service Level Objectives (SLOs), alerting, resilience and debugging.

I adapted each chapter from blog posts I've written over the last 4 years.

Most of the chapters detailed concepts that I applied while working at $dayjob, so they are 100% proven in real business settings :)

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Some info on the backstory. Last year I started writing a book on my software development methodology. I put in ~80 hours and am ~25% done. I began getting discouraged and I wanted the practice of actually shipping an entire book from start to finish. I took 28 blog posts and combined them to create this book. I put in ~20 hours editing the book myself. I'm really happy to have this experience and am looking forward to resuming my other book.

I used leanpub to generate the pdf and epubs. Leanpub has its own markdown flavor called markua. I was originally drawn to leanpub because it has a pretty popular tech listing website. I didn't actually list on leanpub because they only pay using paypal, so I listed on amazon KDP instead.

Thank you!

[tedmiston]

It looks like it's print only on Amazon for now... is there a Kindle / PDF / other digital version somewhere?

It would be nice to know how it compares to or fits in with the Google SRE books [1].

[1]: https://sre.google/books/

[dm03514 → tedmiston]

I really appreciate the comment! I just took the Kindle version down because I wasn't happy with the image scaling. Every image scaled very small. I just uploaded a new version with much better images. It's going through Amazon's review process now and should be available shortly.

I'll update the description with how I see this book in relation to the Google SRE books.

This book aims to provide hands on examples of implementing a number of concepts described in Google's SRE books. It also describes how i've seen SRE concepts impact some of the organizations I've worked in.

A couple chapters are hands on debugging exercises going through the process of debugging applications based on data. I'm excited because every chapter describes something that I've done in paying jobs, so it documents real life SRE in action at various size organizations, and not theoretical SRE concepts.