Database Reliability Engineering - My Notes
Introduction
I have been reading excellent Database Reliability Engineering book and below are my notes from it.
Key Incentive(s) for Automation
- Elimination of Toil - Toil is the kind of work tied to running a production service that tends to be manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, devoid of enduring value, and that scales linearly as a service grows.
Important System Characteristics
Latency, also known as response time, is a time-based measurement indicating how long it takes to receive a response from a request. It is best to measure this for end-to-end response from the customer rather than breaking it down component by component. This is customer-centric design and is crucial for any system that has customers, which is any system