Operations
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7 Books on Monitoring, SRE, and Operations (From Monitoring Basics to SLOs and Capacity)
A reading list of 7 books on monitoring, SRE, and operations: monitoring basics, reliability targets with SLOs, logging and observability, backups, and production readiness and capacity planning. Each entry links to its full review.
An Introduction to Monitoring Design: From Purpose to SLIs
Reframing the purpose of monitoring as decision-making, this guide walks through a tool-agnostic way to design monitoring: the big picture, design principles, user-impact scenarios, and SLI definition, for beginners.
A Practical Textbook on Logging: From Basic Knowledge to Collection Methods, Analysis Techniques, Troubleshooting, Performance Optimization, and Applications in Machine Learning
A review of A Practical Textbook on Logging. A book that systematically explains logging from basic knowledge to collection methods, analysis techniques, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and even applications in machine learning. It broadly covers the foundations for working with logs in practice.
A Practical Guide to Backup: From Basic Concepts to Tool Utilization, Differential Management, Generation Management, Data Preservation, Restore, Recovery, and Ensuring Availability
A review of a practical backup textbook. It broadly covers backups, from basic concepts to using tools, differential and generation management, data preservation, restore and recovery, and ensuring availability. Good for systematically revisiting the basics and building a foundation for practice.
What is a Critical User Journey
Understand Critical User Journeys to identify essential user touchpoints, goals, and pain points for SLO-based service reliability.
A Starter Guide to Implementing SLOs
A start guide aimed at helping you understand SLOs and actually begin operating them. It organizes the stages you need to go through to introduce SLOs to an organization or team and start running them, from initial adoption to ongoing operation, along with practical know-how.
SLO Service Level Objectives: A Practical Guide to Implementing SLI, SLO, and Error Budgets
A review of Implementing Service Level Objectives (SLO). A practical guide to adopting SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Starting from defining services and users, it frames reliability as whether users can do what they need, showing how to set meaningful targets while avoiding over-engineering reliability.
Agile Metrics
A review of Agile Metrics. It systematically explains measurement indicators in agile development, teaching observation methods and how to read metrics to improve team performance. A good fit for those who want to grasp their team's state through numbers.