Site Reliability Engineering 

Course & Training

Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering and Testing

Transform your team's approach with our concise SRE and testing workshop. Learn to identify key questions, focus on meaningful testing and track SLA-relevant metrics. Our "shift left" approach to SRE will guide your team to prioritize effectively in complex environments. The workshop also fosters a fun and engaging culture around all types of testing, from unit to end-to-end testing and deployment failure analysis. Improve your team's SRE and testing skills in a fun, collaborative environment.

In-House Course:

We are happy to conduct tailored courses for your team - on-site, remotely or in our course rooms.

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Content:


Our SRE and Testing Workshop explores the key elements of Site Reliability Engineering, combined with a hands-on approach to testing and failure analysis. Via a blend of theory and exercises, this course covers both the basics and advanced techniques in the following areas:

- Introduction to Site Reliability Engineering
- Determining Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
- Developing effective testing strategies, from unit to end-to-end tests
- Analyzing and preventing deployment failures
- Implementing a 'shift left' approach to enhance reliability early in the development process
- Practice-based case studies and group exercises to reinforce learning
- Creating and managing a collaborative testing culture within the team

The goal is to equip participants with the necessary tools and techniques to make their applications and systems more reliable and their development processes more efficient.


Disclaimer: The actual course content may vary from the above, depending on the trainer, implementation, duration and constellation of participants.

Whether we call it training, course, workshop or seminar, we want to pick up participants at their point and equip them with the necessary practical knowledge so that they can apply the technology directly after the training and deepen it independently.

Goal:

The aim of this workshop is to train participants in effectively applying Site Reliability Engineering and testing principles. This includes implementing strategic tests, understanding and tracking key SLA-relevant metrics, and fostering a positive, collaboration-oriented testing culture within their teams. Upon completion, you'll be able to significantly enhance the reliability and efficiency of your projects.


Duration:

 2 Days (Is individually adapted for in-house courses.)


Form:

The course is well structured and consists of theoretical explanations and practical exercises. You will be accompanied by an experienced trainer who can answer questions related to the topics of the course.


Target Audience:

This workshop is targeted at software developers, QA engineers, DevOps engineers, and IT professionals who wish to expand their knowledge in the areas of Site Reliability Engineering and software testing, and establish a more effective, reliable, and collaborative workflow within their teams.


Requirements:

Participants should be familiar with the basics of software development and have a foundational knowledge in at least one programming or scripting language. Experience in applying testing tools and methodologies would be beneficial but is not mandatory.


Preparation:

Every participant will receive a questionnaire and a preparation checklist after registration. We provide a comprehensive laboratory environment for each participant, so that all participants can directly implement their own experiments and even complex scenarios.

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Waitinglist for public course:

Sign up for the waiting list for more public course dates. Once we have enough people on the waiting list, we will determine a date that suits everyone as much as possible and schedule a new session. If you want to participate directly with two colleagues, we can even plan a public course specifically for you.

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(If you already have 3 or more participants, we will discuss your preferred date directly with you and announce the course.)

More about Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)



Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is an approach that applies software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations problems to create scalable and highly reliable software systems. Developed by Google, the concept merges aspects of traditional IT operations with agile software development and defines clear objectives such as Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets. SRE promotes a culture of shared ownership between development and operations teams, enabling faster and safer deployments.




History


Site Reliability Engineering was developed at Google in the mid-2000s under the leadership of Ben Treynor Sloss. When Google faced the challenge of reliably operating its rapidly growing infrastructure in 2003, Treynor Sloss founded the first SRE team with the goal of deploying software engineers for operations work, bringing automation and technical excellence to the forefront. The core principles – including error budgets, toil reduction, and blameless postmortems – became landmark concepts for the entire industry.


In 2016, Google published the book "Site Reliability Engineering" , making the principles and practices of SRE accessible to the entire software industry. Since then, SRE has gained worldwide adoption and significantly influences modern DevOps practices, platform engineering, and the way organizations balance reliability with the speed of innovation.