Developing a Google SRE Culture

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Approx. 7 hours to complete

Course Summary

Learn how to develop a Google SRE culture through this course. Gain insights into the key practices that Google uses to manage its services and ensure its reliability.

Key Learning Points

  • Understand the principles behind Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and how to apply these to your own organization
  • Learn how to develop a culture of blamelessness and how to manage incidents when they occur
  • Discover best practices for hiring, onboarding, and managing SRE teams

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Learning Outcomes

  • Develop a deeper understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles and how to apply them to your organization
  • Implement best practices for developing a culture of blamelessness and managing incidents
  • Learn how to hire, onboard, and manage SRE teams effectively

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

  • Basic knowledge of software development and IT operations
  • Familiarity with cloud computing and distributed systems

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

  • Self-paced learning
  • Video lectures
  • Quizzes and assessments

Similar Courses

  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  • Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

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Notable People in This Field

  • Vice President, 24x7
  • Site Reliability Engineering Manager

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Description

In many IT organizations, incentives are not aligned between developers, who strive for agility, and operators, who focus on stability. Site reliability engineering, or SRE, is how Google aligns incentives between development and operations and does mission-critical production support. Adoption of SRE cultural and technical practices can help improve collaboration between the business and IT. This course introduces key practices of Google SRE and the important role IT and business leaders play in the success of SRE organizational adoption.

Knowledge

  • Discuss Google’s view on DevOps philosophy and the relationship between DevOps and SRE
  • Articulate Google’s technical and cultural fundamentals of SRE and understand the value they can provide to IT your operations
  • Identify what skills to look for in an SRE and how to train your existing workforce
  • Assess your organization’s maturity level in adopting SRE and understand how Google can help jumpstart SRE in your organization

Outline

  • Module 1: Welcome to Developing a Google SRE Culture
  • Course introduction
  • Welcome and Getting Started Guide!
  • Module 1 Key Points and Reflection Activity
  • Module 1 Quiz
  • Module 2: DevOps, SRE, and Why They Exist
  • Module introduction
  • What are DevOps and SRE?
  • Module 2 Key Points and Reflection Activity
  • Module 2: Quiz
  • Module 3: SLOs with Consequences
  • Module introduction
  • The value of SRE to your organization
  • Accept failure as normal with blameless postmortems
  • Blamelessness and Psychological Safety
  • Reduce organizational silos with SLOs and Error Budgets
  • Unify vision, foster collaboration and communications, and share knowledge
  • Module 3: Key Points, Reflection Activity, and Resources
  • Module 3: Quiz
  • Module 4: Make Tomorrow Better than Today
  • Module introduction
  • Continuous integration, continuous delivery, and canarying
  • Design thinking and prototyping
  • Toil automation
  • Psychology of change and resistance to change
  • Module 4 Key Points and Reflection Activity
  • Module 4: Quiz
  • Module 5: Regulate Workload
  • Module introduction
  • Measure everything by quantifying toil and reliability
  • Goal setting, transparency, and data-based decision-making
  • Module 5 Key Points and Reflection Activity
  • Module 5: Quiz
  • Module 6: Apply SRE in Your Organization
  • Module introduction
  • Organizational maturity for SRE
  • SRE skills and training
  • SRE team implementations
  • Getting started with Google and SRE
  • Module 6 Key Points, Reflection Activity, and Resources
  • Module 6: Quiz
  • Module 7: Final Assessment
  • Learner Workbook
  • Additional resources
  • Final Assessment

Summary of User Reviews

Discover how to develop a Google SRE culture with this course. Users have found the course informative and well-structured. However, some have experienced technical difficulties and have found the course too basic.

Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course

informative and well-structured

Pros from User Reviews

  • Course content is informative and insightful
  • Instructors provide real-life examples and case studies
  • The course is well-structured and easy to follow

Cons from User Reviews

  • Some users have experienced technical difficulties
  • The course may be too basic for experienced professionals
  • The course can be repetitive at times
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