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Database Reliability Engineering - My Notes

Sachin Sunkle

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