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Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Interview Preparation Guide
My fork has actual notes on the subjects. Check the 'Notes' dir and the sub dir for each topic.
This repository is an attempt to consolidate useful resources for Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) interview preparation.
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
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
Kubernetes
- Deploying and Scaling Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes
- 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
Infrastructure as code / Configuration management
CI/CD
- 7 Pipeline Design Patterns for Continuous Delivery
- CI/CD patterns
- Six Strategies for Application Deployment
Clouds
Programming
Python
Go (Golang)
- A tour of Go
- Go by Example
- Learn Go with Tests
- Getting up and running with Go
- Effective Go
- Go Design Patterns
- Go Memory Management
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?
Monitoring
Processes
- 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
Interview
SRE interview process
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
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