References

Here's the list of some of the best content on the topic of SRE:

1. Basics

   1. https://sre.google/

   2. https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/ - By far the best source to get started

   3. https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/devops-sre/four-steps-to-jumpstarting-your-sre-practice 

2. Databases

   1. https://www.integrate.io/blog/which-database/

   2. https://www.integrate.io/blog/the-sql-vs-nosql-difference/

   3. CAP Theorem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHxX_-fA8Y&list=PLhAaDrEJmCb3lpFQ6kDOkf_9wSdRp1cgx&index=9 

3. Availability

   1. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-chaos-microservices/

   2. https://www.atlassian.com/blog/statuspage/high-availability

   3. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2/11.5?topic=availability-high-strategies

4. Scalability

   1. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/netflix-ipc/

   2. https://cloud.google.com/architecture/scalable-and-resilient-apps?hl=en

5. SRE

   1. Non-Abstract Large System Design (NALSD) Chapter in the SRE book, the SRE Classroom site, the Coursera Course to study

   2. "Site Reliability Engineers: We Solve Cooler Problems"

   3. Google Official Blog: SRE: Time, technology and leaping seconds

   4. Google Research Blog: Site Reliability Engineers: Solving the Most Interesting Problems

   5. Videos:

      • The History of SRE

      • Meet Site Reliability Engineers at Google

      • Why Did We Think Large Scale Distributed Systems Would be Easy? (Puppet Conference 2013)

      • What’s the Difference Between DevOps and SRE?

      • "How Google Does Planet-Scale Engineering for Planet-Scale Infra" - Melissa Binde (Google SRE Director), Tech Talk

      • Keys to SRE at Google - SREcon14 Keynote speaker, Ben Treynor (VP, Site Reliability Engineering)

      • Infrastructure & Ops: How Google Does Planet-Scale Engineering for Planet-Scale Infrastructure - Philip Beevers (SRM - London) presentation at GCPNext (October 2016)

      • How Matt (SRE Manager) Leads Engineering Teams at Google

6. Metrics

   1. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/4/235621-metrics-that-matter/fulltext