SRE Recommended Reading

Foundational Reading

• Site Reliability Engineering (GOOGLE)
• Site Reliability Engineering Workbook (GOOGLE)
• Designing Distributed Systems by Brendan Burns
• Building Secure and Reliabile Systems (GOOGLE)

DevOps and SRE Popular titles

• The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
• The Unicorn Project by Gene Kim
• Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
• The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim

Programming Language References and Introductions

• Python for DevOps by Gift, Behrman, Deza, & Gheorghi
• Introducing Go by Caleb Doxsey
• Think Java by Downey and Mayfield

SRE Concept Deep Dive

• Implementing Service Level Objectives by Alex Hidalgo
• Chaos Engineering by Casey Rosenthal
• Seeking SRE by Blank-Edelman

Kubernetes

• Kubernetes Up and Running (2nd Edition) by Burns, Beda, and Hightower
• Kubernetes Best Practices by Micheal Elder
• Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes by John Arundel

Observability and Monitoring Systems

• Production Kubernetes by Rosso, Lander, Brand, & Harris
• 97 Things Every SRE Should Know edited by Emily Freeman and Nathen Harvey
• Distributed Tracing in Practice by Austin Parker

Engineering Systems for Production Workloads

• 97 Things Every Cloud Engineer Should Know by Emil Stolarsky and Jaime Woo
• Prometheus Up and Running by Brian Brazil
• Cloud Native by Scholl and Swanson
• Cloud Native Transformation by Reznik and Dobson and Gienow

Math Foundations for Advanced Reliability

• Think Bayes by Allen Downey
• 40 Algorithims Every Programmer Should Know
• Hands on Data Analysis with Pandas
• Practical Application of Bayesian Reliability
• Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way: Understanding Statistics and Probability with Star Wars, LEGO, and Rubber Ducks by Will Kurt

Resilience vs Reliability vs Antifragility

• Resilience Engineering Association Good resource for introduction to RE and gateway to more depth into safety science.
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto) Nassim Taleb (see also Black Swan)
• Technical Debt: Challenges and Perspectives
• Fault Injection in Production
• Video John Allspaw on Common Ground and Coordination in Joint Activity

Leadership & Teams

• Leading Change by John P Kotter
• Start with Why by Simon Sinek
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts by Brene Brown
• Fearless Organization by Amy Edmondson