LESSONS LEARNED FROM TWENTY YEARS OF SITE RELIABILITY ENGINEERING

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This article lists 11 things Site Reliability Engineers at Google have learned from 20 years of working in the field. Google is now over 1,000 times as large as it was 20 years ago, with a network 10,000 times larger. The company now spends far less effort per server than it used to while enjoying much better reliability. Its tools have evolved throughout the years into a unified platform that offers reliability by default.