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Site Reliability Engineer Interview Preparation Guide

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Interview Preparation Guide

This repository is an attempt to consolidate useful resources for Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) interview preparation.

Contributing

Please take a look at the contribution guidelines first. Contributions are always welcome!

Basics

• Simple: What happens when you type in ‘www.cnn.com’ in your browser?
• Detailed: What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?

Linux

Boot Process

• An introduction to the Linux boot and startup processes
• What happens when we turn on computer?
• What happens when we turn on computer?
• From Power up to login prompt

Filesystem

• Understanding Inodes
• Understand UNIX / Linux Inodes Basics with Examples
• Understanding proc filesystem
• Common Mount Options
• Understanding Linux filesystems: ext4 and beyond

Kernel

• Explain the basics of Linux kernel
• Kernel Space and User Space
• Linux Kernel Process Management
• Linux Addressing
• Linux Kernel Memory Management
• STACK AND HEAP
• Paging and Segmentation
• Linux Kernel System Calls
• The Virtual Filesystem
• Concurrency and Race Conditions
• Memory Leak
• What is a kernel Panic?

Troubleshooting

• Linux troubleshooting tools
• Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds
• strace
• lsof
• Linux system debugging
• SaaS where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills

Networking

• Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
• Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking
• Multi-tier load-balancing with Linux
• Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying
• Load Balancing Algorithms

Containers

• Introduction to Docker and Containers
• Containers Patterns
• Docker Container Anti Patterns
• Anti-Patterns When Building Container Images

Kubernetes

• Deploying and Scaling Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes
• Demystifying the Kubernetes Iceberg
• What happens when ... Kubernetes edition!
• Kubernetes Production Patterns
• Kubernetes production best practices
• A Guide to the Kubernetes Networking Model
• 47 Things To Become a Kubernetes Expert
• Kubernetes Best Practices 101
• 15 Kubernetes Best Practices Every Developer Should Know
• THE KUBERNETES NETWORKING GUIDE

Infrastructure as code / Configuration management

• Terraform
• A Comprehensive Guide to Terraform
• Ansible
• Getting Started With Terraform on AWS

Databases

• Things You Should Know About Databases
• 7 Database Paradigms
• CAP theorem
• Evolutionary Database Design
• ACID vs BASE in Databases
• Understanding Database Sharding
• Database Replication
• SQL vs. NoSQL Database: When to Use, How to Choose
• How do database indexes work?

CI/CD

• 7 Pipeline Design Patterns for Continuous Delivery
• CI/CD patterns
• Six Strategies for Application Deployment

Clouds

• The Open Guide to Amazon Web Services
• Learning Azure
• Hands-On Training with GCP

Programming

Python

• Python Basics
• Python For Everyone
• Complete Python Tutorial

Go (Golang)

• A tour of Go
• Go by Example
• Go Tutorials & Examples
• Learn Go with Tests
• Getting up and running with Go
• Effective Go
• Go Design Patterns
• Go Memory Management
• Style Guide
• Style Decisions
• Best Practices

Big O Notation, Algorithms and Data Structures

• AlgoExperts
• Hacking a Google Interview – Handout 1
• Hacking a Google Interview – Handout 2
• Hacking a Google Interview – Handout 3

System design

• SystemsExpert course from AlgoExpert
• Grokking the System Design Interview
• The System Design Primer
• Crack the System Design Interview
• System design interview for IT companies
• Web Architecture 101
• What's in a Production Web Application?
• Distributed systems

System design examples

• Designing WhatsApp
• Designing Uber
• Designing Tinder
• Designing Instagram
• Designing Netflix

Monitoring

• SLOs & You: A Guide To Service Level Objectives
• Setting up Service Monitoring — The Why’s and What’s
• How NOT to Measure Latency

Processes

• The practical guide to incident management
• Incident Response
• Postmortems
• Runbooks
• Identifying and tracking toil using SRE principles
• Building SRE from Scratch
• SRE at Google: Our complete list of CRE life lessons
• Incident Management vs. Incident Response - What's the Difference?
• Practical Guide to SRE: Using SLOs to Increase Reliability
• Practical Guide to SRE: Automating On-Call
• Going from Zero to SRE
• An Incident Command Training Handbook

Resume

• SRE Complete Resume Writing Guide

Interview

SRE interview process

• How to hire talent
• Recruitment process for a Google job (SRE, Site Reliability Engineer)

Interview Questions

• A collection of questions to practice with for SRE interviews
• SRE Interview Questions
• Sysadmin Test Questions
• Kubernetes job interview questions
• DevOps Guide
• Questions I ask in SRE interviews
• DevOps Roadmap: Learn to become a DevOps Engineer or SRE

Blogposts

• SRE Interviews in Silicon Valley
• Preparing the SRE interview
• How to Get Into SRE
• My Job Interview at Google
• Path to Site Reliability Management
• Becoming a Site Reliability Engineer
• How I get a job at Google as SRE

Books

SRE books

• Site Reliability Engineering
• The Site Reliability Workbook
• Seeking SRE
• Building Secure and Reliable Systems
• Implementing Service Level Objectives

Linux

• Linux Kernel Development (3rd Edition)
• UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook (5th Edition)
• Linux Pocket Guide, 3rd Edition

Networking

• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1

Troubleshooting and Performance

• Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud
• Systems Performance, 2nd Edition

Courses

• Site Reliability Engineering: Measuring and Managing Reliability
• School of SRE