SRE Map

Definition

SRE is what happens when you ask a software engineer to design an ops team. We want systems that runs and repairs itself: automatic, not just automated.

Topics

• On-Call
• Monitoring
• Emergency Response
• Change Management
• Capacity Planning
• Risk Management
  • Measuring Service Risk
  • Managing Service Risk
• Eliminating Toil
• Simplicity
  • SRE teams should
    • Push back when accidental complexity is introduced into the systems for which they are responsible.
    • Constantly strive to eliminate complexity in systems they onboard and for which they assume operational responsibility.
• Hierarchy of Needs (from most basic to most advanced)
  • Monitoring
  • Incident Response
  • Postmertem w/ RCA
  • Testing and Release procedures
  • Capacity Planning
  • Development
  • Product