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A review by niharikaaaaaa9
Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Niall Richard Murphy
It's hard to give this book a star rating - there were some essays that I really enjoyed and learned from, while others I found dry. Perhaps my only recommendation would regarding this book would be to not read it cover to cover, and instead, hone in on the parts of Site Reliability Engineering, and read just those essays.
Somewhat tangential, and likely due to recency bias, but one of the essays I liked the most was one of the last ones, in which the authors interviewed a host of Google software engineers, who had backgrounds in industries that also cared heavily about reliability - think air traffic control, working on the 911 system, nuclear power plant engineers, and lifeguards. The essay compared and contrasted those industries' definitions and standards for reliability with the Google SRE teams, and while there were quite a lot of similarities, there were also notable differences which I found interesting.
Somewhat tangential, and likely due to recency bias, but one of the essays I liked the most was one of the last ones, in which the authors interviewed a host of Google software engineers, who had backgrounds in industries that also cared heavily about reliability - think air traffic control, working on the 911 system, nuclear power plant engineers, and lifeguards. The essay compared and contrasted those industries' definitions and standards for reliability with the Google SRE teams, and while there were quite a lot of similarities, there were also notable differences which I found interesting.