Transforming to SRE Next Gen
3 tracks ○ 4 hours total
This journey empowers with the skills needed to enhance system resilience, implement observability, and adapt to the evolving IT landscape for next-generation reliability engineering.
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Capabilities this Journey Builds
- Adopting next-gen SRE practices for modern challenges.
- Building resilient, fault-tolerant software systems.
- Implementing observability for proactive monitoring.
- Enhancing system adaptability in evolving environments
Tracks in This Journey
The Need for SRE Next Gen
- Discuss the limitations of traditional SRE practices in addressing the complexities of modern environments.
- Explain the impact of technological advancement on SRE.
- Describe the implications of using open-source technologies.
- Explain effective selection strategies for open source and other platforms and services.
- Outline the challenges associated with navigating multi-cloud and hybrid architectures.
- Define SRE Next Gen.
- Analyze the shift in the role of SREs from reactive problem solvers to proactive reliability architects and business enablers.
- Highlight the new skill sets and tools needed for SRE professionals.
- Discuss the evolving relationship between development, operations, and reliability teams in the SRE Next Gen environment.
Building Resilient Software
- Define the principles of software resilience and its importance in modern systems.
- Identify the common failure methods and their impacts on modern software systems.
- Identify the failure detection and prevention strategies.
- Identify strategies for disaster recovery.
- Discuss key strategies for building resilience.
- Design and execute resilience tests.
Adapting to the Evolving IT Landscape
- Define observability and monitoring in the context of modern IT systems.
- Explain how the evolution of IT infrastructure requires a shift in monitoring practices.
- Outline the methods for conducting distributed monitoring across various architectures.
- Write telemetry that enhances observability.
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