SRE fundamentals: a lightning rod against storms in the cloud

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Introduces core Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices for building and maintaining more reliable cloud applications, with concrete real-world examples applicable to companies of any size. Covers practical SRE fundamentals—incident prevention and handling, reliability engineering techniques, and operational best practices—illustrated from industry experience with Linux distributions and container-optimized systems.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 4:32Dev vs ops conflict
3. 6:20Monitoring and metrics
4. 9:08Alerts and false positives
5. 10:32Service Level Objectives
6. 14:27Error budgets and changes
7. 15:53Testing and automation
8. 17:16Canary strategy
9. 19:03Full automation
10. 19:45Incident readiness
11. 22:55Summary
12. 24:41Q&A

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