Mastering the SRE Interview A Comprehensive Guide
HubMub
12/21/2024
· 7 min read
Preparing for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) interview can be a daunting task, given the wide range of topics that candidates need to master.
From understanding Linux internals and networking fundamentals to exploring Kubernetes best practices and CI/CD pipelines, the SRE role requires a solid grasp of multiple disciplines.
This guide consolidates the most valuable resources to help you excel in your preparation journey. Whether you’re tackling system design challenges, diving into monitoring tools like Prometheus, or brushing up on Terraform skills, this comprehensive resource hub is your one-stop solution to confidently navigate the SRE interview process.
- Simple: What happens when you type in ‘www.cnn.com’ in your browser?
- Detailed: What happens when you type google.com into your browser's address box and press enter?
- Introduction to Linux – Full Course for Beginners
- What every SRE should know about GNU/Linux shell related internals: file descriptors, pipes, terminals, user sessions, process groups and daemons
- SRE deep dive into Linux Page Cache
- Linux Internals workshop - Google TechTalks
- How Does Linux Boot Process Work?
- An introduction to the Linux boot and startup processes
- What happens when we turn on computer?
- What happens when we turn on computer?
- From Power up to login prompt
- Understanding Inodes
- Understand UNIX / Linux Inodes Basics with Examples
- Understanding proc filesystem
- Common Mount Options
- Understanding Linux filesystems: ext4 and beyond
- Explain the basics of Linux kernel
- Kernel Space and User Space
- Linux Kernel Process Management
- Linux Addressing
- Linux Kernel Memory Management
- STACK AND HEAP
- Paging and Segmentation
- Linux Kernel System Calls
- The Virtual Filesystem
- Concurrency and Race Conditions
- Memory Leak
- What is a kernel Panic?
- Book about the linux kernel
- Processes in Linux - Everything You Need to Know
- Linux troubleshooting tools
- Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds
- strace
- lsof
- Linux system debugging
- SaaS where users can test their Linux troubleshooting skills
- The Internet explained from first principles
- Network protocols for anyone who knows a programming language
- Introduction to Linux interfaces for virtual networking
- Multi-tier load-balancing with Linux
- Introduction to modern network load balancing and proxying
- Load Balancing Algorithms
- What every SRE should know about GNU/Linux resolvers and Dual-Stack applications
- Introduction to Docker and Containers
- Containers Patterns
- Docker Container Anti Patterns
- Anti-Patterns When Building Container Images
- Deploying and Scaling Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes
- Demystifying the Kubernetes Iceberg
- What happens when ... Kubernetes edition!
- Kubernetes Production Patterns
- Kubernetes production best practices
- A Guide to the Kubernetes Networking Model
- 47 Things To Become a Kubernetes Expert
- Kubernetes Best Practices 101
- 15 Kubernetes Best Practices Every Developer Should Know
- THE KUBERNETES NETWORKING GUIDE
- The life of a DNS query in Kubernetes
- Kubernetes YAML tips and tricks
- Kubernetes Learning Roadmap
- Terraform
- A Comprehensive Guide to Terraform
- Ansible
- Getting Started With Terraform on AWS
- Google Cloud: Best practices for using Terraform
- Terraform Roadmap
- Things You Should Know About Databases
- 7 Database Paradigms
- CAP theorem
- Evolutionary Database Design
- ACID vs BASE in Databases
- Understanding Database Sharding
- Database Replication
- SQL vs. NoSQL Database: When to Use, How to Choose
- How do database indexes work?
- Redis Explained
- Database Sharding Explained
- Kafka 101
- Continuous Integration
- 7 Pipeline Design Patterns for Continuous Delivery
- CI/CD patterns
- Six Strategies for Application Deployment
- What Is GitOps?
- A tour of Go
- Go by Example
- Go Tutorials & Examples
- Learn Go with Tests
- Getting up and running with Go
- Effective Go
- Go Design Patterns
- Go Memory Management
- Style Guide
- Style Decisions
- Best Practices
- 50 Shades of Go: Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs
- AlgoExpert
- Hacking a Google Interview – Handout 1
- Hacking a Google Interview – Handout 2
- Hacking a Google Interview – Handout 3
- SystemsExpert course from AlgoExpert
- System Design 101
- Grokking the System Design Interview
- The System Design Primer
- Crack the System Design Interview
- System design interview for IT companies
- Web Architecture 101
- What's in a Production Web Application?
- Distributed systems
- Failover
- Monoliths, Service Architecture, and Microservices
- Scale From Zero To Millions Of Users
- Implementing SLOs
- Setting up Service Monitoring — The Why’s and What’s
- How NOT to Measure Latency
- The four Golden Signals of Kubernetes monitoring
- Introduction to Prometheus
- Prometheus Relabeling Training
- Avoid These 6 Mistakes When Getting Started With Prometheus
- A Deep Dive Into the Four Types of Prometheus Metrics
- How Prometheus Querying Works
- PromQL Cheat Sheet
- The practical guide to incident management
- Incident Response
- Postmortems
- Runbooks
- Identifying and tracking toil using SRE principles
- Building SRE from Scratch
- SRE at Google: Our complete list of CRE life lessons
- Incident Management vs. Incident Response - What's the Difference?
- Practical Guide to SRE: Using SLOs to Increase Reliability
- Practical Guide to SRE: Automating On-Call
- Going from Zero to SRE
- An Incident Command Training Handbook
- Howie guide to post‑incident investigations
- Rundown of LinkedIn’s SRE practices
- Rundown of Uber’s SRE practice
- SRE in the Real World
- SRE Engagement Models
- SRE Checklist
- Why bother with SLI and SLO?
- The System Resiliency Pyramid
- 10 Tips for Onboarding New SRE Hires
- Starting SRE at startups and smaller organizations
- Things That Makes a Good Site Reliability Engineer
- How SRE teams are organized, and how to get started
- A collection of questions to practice with for SRE interviews
- SRE Interview Questions
- Sysadmin Test Questions
- Kubernetes job interview questions
- DevOps Guide
- Questions I ask in SRE interviews
- DevOps Roadmap: Learn to become a DevOps Engineer or SRE
- The Must-Know Terraform Interview Questions
- SRE Interviews in Silicon Valley
- Preparing the SRE interview
- How to Get Into SRE
- My Job Interview at Google
- Path to Site Reliability Management
- Becoming a Site Reliability Engineer
- How I get a job at Google as SRE
- Become A DevOps Engineer in 2023: [Detailed Guide]
- How to Get an SRE Role
- DevOps Career Path
- Key DevOps Engineer Skills You Need in 2024
- Site Reliability Engineering
- The Site Reliability Workbook
- Seeking SRE
- Building Secure and Reliable Systems
- Implementing Service Level Objectives
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