Database Reliability Engineering: Designing and Operating Resilient Database Systems

If you’re an IT professional looking to broaden your knowledge of database administration, this practical book takes you through each component of site reliability and operations within the context of database engines. IT staffers with minimal database operations experience can use this knowledge as a foundation of the architecture and operations within a specific database.

This book uses open-source engines such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Cassandra as examples throughout.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introducing Database Reliability Engineering
Chapter 2. Service Level Management
Chapter 3. Risk Management
Chapter 4. Operational Visibility
Chapter 5. Infrastructure Engineering
Chapter 6. Infrastructure Management
Chapter 7. Backup And Recovery
Chapter 8. Release Management
Chapter 9. Security
Chapter 10. Data Storage, Indexing And Replication
Chapter 11. Datastore Field Guide
Chapter 12. A Data Architecture Sampler
Chapter 13. Making The Case For Dbre