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A little ironic, but aren't parts of GCP down right now? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/08/google-ou... EDIT: looks like this comment didn't resonate well with some readers.
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You believe that Google Accounts, GMail, and GDrive are fundamentally insecure and unreliable? Compared to what?
You mean the same Google services running on top of data centers that the NSA had infiltrated and was monitoring for years?
What does a lizard have to do with SRE?
> I ask the authors to supply me with a description of the topic of the book. What I am looking for is adjectives that really give me an idea of the "personality" of the topic.... Sometimes it is based on no more than what the title sounds like. (COFF, for example, sounded like a walrus noise to me.) Sometimes it is very much linked to the name of the book or software. (For example, vi, the "Visual Editor," suggested some beast with huge eyes).
My guess is the animals of the series is kind of decided by the first animal. Several Kubernetes (operators)/Cloud-native books are with birds on front page.
What does a lizard have to do with SRE?
O'Reilly-published books often have an animal on the cover. I don't think they are picked for relevance to the topic (even most of the Python books don't have pythons!) https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreil...
Well, that actually makes sense since Python derives its name from Monty Python and not the reptile.
Looking at the authors, this book would be more about security, rather than reliability.
What does a lizard have to do with SRE?
Hey everyone - Seth from Google here. Thank you for all the positive comments about the book. I'll be around to answer any questions you might have. As noted, the book can be downloaded for free in digital formats. PDF: https://landing.google.com/sre/static/pdf/SRS.pdf EPUB: https://landing.google.com/sre/static/pdf/srs-epub.epub MOBI: https://landing.google.com/sre/static/pdf/srs-mobi.mobi
A bit far-fetched but: Have you (or anyone else at Google) looked at Amazon Builder's Library [0] and/or various re:Invent / re:Inforce talks from 2018/19 [1][2] that focus on similar topics as in this book and other SRE books? If so, what are some ideas (infrastructure, blast radius, incident management, resilience, recovery, deployment strategies, crisis management, disaster planning, aftermath etc) you folks think that contrast / complement Google's approach to building hyperscale systems?
Thanks.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21714209