Reliability & Operations
Master the practices and principles that keep systems running at scale. This section covers Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), incident management, monitoring, and operational excellence.
What You'll Learn
SRE Fundamentals
- Error budgets and SLOs/SLIs/SLAs
- Toil reduction and automation
- Capacity planning and resource management
- Postmortem culture and blameless retrospectives
Monitoring & Observability
- Metrics, logs, and traces (The Three Pillars)
- Alerting strategies and alert fatigue prevention
- Distributed tracing implementation
- Performance monitoring and optimization
Incident Management
- On-call best practices
- Incident response procedures
- Communication during incidents
- Root cause analysis techniques
Operational Excellence
- Change management processes
- Deployment strategies (Blue-Green, Canary, Rolling)
- Disaster recovery planning
- Backup and restore procedures
Key Topics Covered
- Reliability Engineering: Building systems that meet availability targets
- Chaos Engineering: Proactive failure testing
- Troubleshooting: Systematic approaches to problem-solving
- Automation: Reducing manual operations through tooling
Real-World Applications
Learn through practical scenarios:
- Setting up monitoring for microservices
- Implementing chaos experiments
- Building runbooks and playbooks
- Designing on-call rotations
Interview Focus Areas
Common interview topics include:
- Explaining SRE principles and practices
- Designing monitoring solutions
- Incident response scenarios
- Capacity planning problems
Ready to build reliable systems? Let's dive into the world of SRE and operations!