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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Niall Richard Murphy

Editors of Google's Site Reliability Engineering corpus—operational practice for reliability at scale.

Why this matters

SRE writing anchors how serious systems formalize error budgets, blameless postmortems, and accountable operations.

Focus in observatory

Works

book

Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

Beyer, Betsy, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Richard Murphy, eds. *Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems*. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, 2016.

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