Reading List
A reading queue and reference shelf for reliability, Kubernetes, microservices, AI, and guitar pedal building.
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The updated Google SRE reference, covering modern production environments, cloud reliability, and AI.

Practical examples of applying SRE, from SLOs and alerting to incident management. Free to read online.

Designing and operating systems with security and reliability considered together. Free to read online.

A practical guide to defining useful SLIs, setting SLOs, and making error budgets part of engineering decisions.

Production practices for resource management, observability, security, delivery, and service networking.

Service boundaries, independent deployment, distributed data, and the operational trade-offs of microservices.

Event streams, asynchronous workflows, and the design of event-driven services.

Building applications with foundation models, including evaluation, retrieval, and inference.

A hands-on introduction to modifying guitar and bass effects. Author's official listing; availability may vary.

A deeper reference for designing and adapting effects circuits. An older, out-of-print title; linked to its bibliographic record.