If you’d like these in downloadable formats, and want a more exhaustive list of all the “Google SRE” content - I have a repo[1] with lots of links and code to generate PDFs. There is also a machine read audiobook[2].

[1]: https://github.com/captn3m0/google-sre-ebook

[2]: https://github.com/chiaen/sre-book-in-audio

I found more than a few links in your README to be broken. I don’t have a GitHub account to raise issues though.

Fixed or marked them as dead. Google published a lot of this under partnership with O'Reilly and it looks like Google is no longer publishing the PDF versions of their case studies, instead paywalling them behind O'Reilly.

Are they actually dead?

* https://web.archive.org/web/20210702035314/https://static.go...

* https://sre.google/static/pdf/practical-guide-to-cloud-migra... loads fine for me

* https://web.archive.org/web/20210702003102/https://sre.googl...

and so on; I think based on the presence of those that the rest will be there, too

And, as always, a friendly reminder that if you enjoyed this content, The Internet Archive accepts donations: https://archive.org/donate/

The CodingBlocks podcast is in the middle of a series on this book. Definitely worth a listen to help flesh out some of the more nuanced bits of the book.

https://pca.st/episode/b6ca5e7b-0cc8-4491-8fd7-8d4794615096

A friendly reminder that while these practices can be useful, take them with a grain of salt. Your company is not Google.

SRE = Site Reliablity Engineering

whenever i hear or read a google SRE resource, i’m most impressed by their back of the napkin calculations. it’s a skill i wish i had but don’t have opportunities to do it or even validate that i’m in the right ball park

Is it a skill or do they just have better access to data to base their calculations on?

Mostly a skill, it is not really taught in CS because implementation is cheap but physicists, traditional engineering (electrical etc.) and some business schools all use aspects of estimation.