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Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Fundamentals

Master the principles and practices of Site Reliability Engineering as pioneered at Google and adopted by modern engineering organizations. This intermediate course covers SLOs and error budgets, incident management, observability, toil elimination, and capacity planning so you can run production services that are reliable, scalable, and operationally sustainable. By the end you will be able to design and operate an SRE program that balances feature velocity with reliability commitments.

4.70/5.0
12 hours
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Updated May 2026
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By Marcus Reid

What You'll Learn

Explain core SRE principles and how they relate to DevOps culture
Define service level indicators, objectives, and error budgets for a real service
Lead incident response using severity tiers, an Incident Commander model, and blameless postmortems
Instrument services using the three pillars of observability (metrics, logs, traces)
Identify and eliminate toil through automation, runbooks, and self-healing systems
Plan capacity using load testing, headroom analysis, and degradation strategies
Design an end-to-end reliability framework for a production service

Prerequisites

  • Comfort with Linux command line and basic shell scripting
  • Familiarity with monitoring concepts (metrics, alerts, dashboards)
  • Working knowledge of HTTP, REST APIs, and web service architecture
  • Awareness of distributed systems concepts (load balancing, replication, failure modes)
  • Basic experience with at least one cloud platform or container runtime

About the Instructor

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Marcus Reid

Expert instructor with hands-on industry experience in Devops.

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LevelIntermediate
Duration12 hours
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Students0
Rating4.70 / 5.0

This course includes

  • Hands-on practice labs
  • AI-powered explanations
  • Progress tracking
  • Certificate of completion
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