The Story of Google and How It Remains Reliable
April 13, 2016
I noted that Google Books offers a preview of “Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production System” by a gaggle of Googlers. The book will soon be available from O’Reilly which has given its permission to Google to provide a preview of a book about Google written by Google. You can also find a “summary” of the book at this link. I am not sure who DanLuu is, but the individual “likes this book a lot.” I would, therefore, conclude that he is either a Googler, a Xoogler, or a Googler in waiting.
From the introduction available on Google Books, it seems that the authors are Googlers. The information appears to be an explanation of some of the innovations produced by the Google in the last 15 years, a lot of the philosophy of speed and efficiency, and a bit of Google cheerleading.
What’s the book cover? Here’s a sampling of the subjects:
- A run down of Google’s philosophy of site reliability engineering
- The principles of SRE (eliminating boring manual work, simplicity, etc.)
- Practices (handling problems like cascading failure, data integrity). I would point out that Palantir moved beyond Google’s methods in its rework of Percolator to achieve greater reliability.)
- Management (more of engineering practices than orchestrating humans)
- Conclusions (Google learns which suggests other organizations do not learn).
Each of these sections is chopped into smaller segments. In generate, the writing is less academic than the approach into the technical papers which Googlers deliver at conferences.
You can order the book on Amazon too.
Stephen E Arnold, April 13, 2016
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