Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Google pioneered the discipline of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), applying reliability to the entire user journey for consumer, enterprise, and infrastructure systems. In the years since, many organizations have followed suit, guided by the tenets laid out in the best-selling first edition of this practical book. Now, a fully revised edition brings Site Reliability Engineering up-to-date with fresh insights on engineering techniques, organizational processes, and case studies that will help you promote and implement greater reliability throughout the engineering lifecycle.

In this edition, key members of Google's SRE team explore the company's current SRE practices and explain how they've evolved in the decade since the book's initial publication. Updates cover the value of reliability, cloud reliability, and the impact of AI. You'll learn the principles and practices that can make your organization's systems scalable, reliable, and efficient.

• Train new Site Reliability Engineers based on the latest practices in the field
• Develop engineering organizations that support reliability as a feature
• Build online services that incorporate reliability principles
• Start to use emerging AI capabilities to improve SRE across the organization and optimize critical areas such as automation and incident detection

Author: Betsy Beyer,Chris Jones,Christof Leng
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 10/20/2026
Pages: 794
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.74lbs
Size: 9.19h x 7.00w x 1.58d
ISBN: 9798341607682

About the Author
Beyer, Betsy: - Betsy Beyer has worked at Google for almost 20 years, most recently in the role of program manager for Site Reliability Engineering. She's the editor of three books in this space, including the best-selling first edition of this one, and also cochairs the editorial board of ACM Queue. She previously worked on Google's datacenter and hardware operations teams. Before moving to New York, Betsy was a lecturer on technical writing at Stanford University. She holds degrees from Stanford and Tulane.Jones, Chris: - Chris Jones is a Site Reliability Engineer for Google Maps. Based in San Francisco, he has previously been responsible for the care and feeding of Google App Engine, a cloud platform-as-a-service product serving over 28 billion requests per day, and a number of other services. In other lives, Chris has worked in privacy engineering and academic IT, analyzed data for political campaigns, and engaged in some light BSD kernel hacking, picking up degrees in computer engineering, economics, and technology policy along the way. He's also a licensed professional engineer.Leng, Christof: - Christof Leng has been working as a Site Reliability Engineer for Google for more than 11 years in the Dublin and Munich offices. He has worked on systems in Google's ads, cloud, and internal developer infrastructure and built and managed various teams in these areas over the years. He has been responsible for central Google SRE programs including the SRE engagement model, production excellence (ProdEx), and production launch reviews. Christof holds a PhD in computer science from TU Darmstadt and has been a postdoc at ICSI and UC Berkeley. He has also served as vice president of the German Informatics Society (GI). Christof lives in Darmstadt with his wife, three children, and two cats.
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