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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Take, for example, The Web Almanac , the golden collection of Big Data combined with the collective intelligence from most of the authors listed below, brilliantly spearheaded by Google’s @rick_viscomi. ” – Andy King, 2003. High Performance Browser Networking. Web Performance Collection.

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What is a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)?

Dotcom-Montior

The term site reliability engineering first came into existence at Google in 2003 when a site reliability team was created. The term “Site Reliability Engineer” is attributed to Ben Treynor Sloss, now a Vice President of Engineering at Google. At that time, the team was made up of software engineers.