SRE Omelette
Cookbook
Blending Reliability, Sustainability, Collaboration, and Craftsmanship for Success
Stories and Recipes from the SRE Kitchen
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SRE Omelette
Welcome to the Cookbook for the Making of the SRE Omelette podcast—a companion guide where we explore the essential ingredients, techniques, and organizational recipes behind successful Site Reliability Engineering. Much like a culinary cookbook, this space is meant to inspire experimentation and personalization. Just as the joy of cooking comes from a chef’s unique spin on a dish, the art of SRE lies in adapting best practices to your team’s specific flavor, culture, and business needs. Dig in, tweak the recipes, and craft your own path to reliability and client success.
Chapters and Recipes (just like our knowledge, content in chapters will continue to evolve)
The Origin Story
SRE Fundamentals
Career Path
People First - The Core Ingredient
ROI - Measuring what Matters
Automate Manual Toil with Context Awareness
Incremental Innovation Loops
Shift Left with Predictive Insights
Integrate Innovation into Delivery Pipelines
Embrace Failure as a Path to Innovation
Signal Filtering and Triage
Establish Feedback Loops for Model Accuracy
Build Trust through Transparency
Start Small, Scale Smart
Keep the Human in the Loop
Tailor and Adapt - Don't Copy-Paste
Balance Theory with Practical Adoption
Start Where You Are
Google's SRE Evolution
Recognition and Teaming
Map Critical Dependencies
Conduct Resilience Assessments
Improving Resilience with Dependencies
Implement Release Readiness Gates
Measure Release Impact
Retiring the Term "RCA"
Blameless Post Incident Reviews
Capture and Share Operational Learnings
Design for Learning, Not Perfection
Embrace Surprise as a Signal
Foster Curiosity and Responsibility
Design for Reliability Starts with Empathy
Levelling Up Together
Built It In, Don't Bolt It On
The Art of Asking for Help
People: The Heatbeat and Mindset of SRE
Process: From Toil to Teamwide Transformation
Platform: The Foundation for Scalable, Sustainable Reliability
Support Autonomy with Guardrails
Use Metrics to Inform, Not Police
Align Personal Values with Engineering Practices
Build Repeatable Culture Through Rituals and Practices
Preview of next set of chapters
Reliable Sustainability Explained
Reliable Sustainability Explained
Integrate Sustainability into Engineering Decisions
Measure Environmental Efficiency in Ops
ESG is a Framework, not a Limitation
Tools, Tech, and Real-World Impact
Taking Action
Acting on
What You Measure
Acting on
What You Measure
Refine Metrics into Actionable Data
Report in Terms That Matter
SREs as Sustainability Engineers
Think Like an Entrepreneur
Vision Drives Action
Designing for
Sustainable Outcome
Designing for
Sustainable Outcome
Incorporate Sustainability in Product Design
Develop Internal Pitch Frameworks
Acting on What You Measure
Pull Up a Chair: SREs in the Design Room
Culture
Intelligent Infrastructure Strategies
Intelligent Infrastructure Strategies
Use Data-Driven Infrastructure Insights
Leverage AI for Infrastructure Efficiency
Act on What You Measure
Art of Automation
Season with Diverse Perspectives
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