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Building Secure & Reliable Systems

Google practitioners connect security and reliability across system design, implementation, operation, incident response, and organizational culture.

What to look for

  1. 01

    Read security and reliability as interacting properties of the whole system.

  2. 02

    The preface explicitly invites readers to adapt practices to their own infrastructure and stage.

Keep in mind

Some approaches assume infrastructure your organization may not have. The authors explicitly recommend selective adaptation rather than adopting every practice.

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Choose a recovery mechanism and ask whether it still works under an adversarial event, not only an accidental outage.

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Notes and exercises by Awesome CTO. The original work belongs to Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship, Ana Oprea, Piotr Lewandowski & Adam Stubblefield.

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