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Production Engineering

Operate high-availability systems with reliability targets, disaster recovery, incident response, and cost controls.

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Prerequisites

Observability
Advanced Scalability
Infrastructure as Code

Key Concepts & Skills

Reliability
High Availability
Disaster Recovery
Cost Optimization
Define SLOs
Plan failover
Run postmortems
Optimize cloud spend

Learning Outcomes

Understand the core principles of Reliability
Configure and deploy High Availability successfully
Troubleshoot common issues with Disaster Recovery
Understand the core principles of Cost Optimization
Configure and deploy Define SLOs successfully
Troubleshoot common issues with Plan failover
Understand the core principles of Run postmortems
Configure and deploy Optimize cloud spend successfully

Resources

Official Docs

Google SRE books AWS reliability pillar

Community

FinOps Foundation

Practice Exercises

Write an incident runbook.Create an SLO and error budget.Estimate monthly cloud cost for a service.

Project Task

Design a highly available backend with disaster recovery and cost controls.

Quiz

What is the difference between availability and reliability?Explain the answer with one real-world example.List one mistake a beginner might make here.

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