Site Reliability Engineering

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1. skybrianOct 2026
   Automating away the tedious parts of your work is something sysadmins and programmers have been doing for a long time. For example see:

   https://sre.google/sre-book/eliminating-toil/

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2. otterleyAug 2026
   I’m not wrong. They do use feature flags, but not as a substitute for rolling back failed or buggy deployments. They (and Google too) use feature flags in the ways according to the best practices discussed in the article. Google also covers this well in their highly-regarded Site Reliability Engineering book.

   Source: worked at AWS for 7 years.

   And knock it off with the attitude.

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3. zknillJul 2025
   This reads like a bit of a smell. I'd be pretty suspicious of why you have tasks and reminders in the first place. The question also reads like the volume of these tasks and reminders is large enough to be a problem.

   You should check out the "toil" section of the Google SRE book

   https://sre.google/sre-book/eliminating-toil/

   > If a human operator needs to touch your system during normal operations, you have a bug.

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4. alephnerdMar 2025
   Data Center reliability engineering is insane (in a good way).

   I recommend reading Google's SRE book [0] to get a feel of some of the work done in this space.

   [0] - https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/

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5. hoerzuDec 2024
   Here is a list so far: - Designing data intensive applications

   - Just Enough Software Architecture

   - Domain Driven Design - Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Eric Evans) I recommend this one more than Vaughn Vernon's DDD.

   - Clean Architecture (Robert Martin)

   - Fundamentals of Software Architecture: an Engineering Approach

   - Design Patterns (Gamma et al)

   - Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

   - Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Fowler))

   - Refactoring to Patterns

   - Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture

   -Head First Design Patterns Building Extensible and Maintainable Object Oriented Software and I

   - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odxOPxYJdjg

   - "Architecture Modernization: Socio-technical alignment of software, strategy, and structure"

   - Software Architecture in Practice

   - Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond

   - Head first: Software Architecture

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6. kyrraSep 2024
   May I recommend this chapter from the Google SRE book: https://sre.google/sre-book/being-on-call/

   As well as this two from the management section: https://sre.google/sre-book/dealing-with-interrupts/ and https://sre.google/sre-book/operational-overload/

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