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Developing a Google SRE Culture
Intermediate 16 hours English Course Certificate Certificate
About this course
This Google-authored course introduces Site Reliability Engineering as practiced at Google: defining SLIs and SLOs, using error budgets to balance reliability and velocity, identifying and reducing toil through automation, and conducting blameless postmortems.
The curriculum draws directly from Google's SRE Book and the practices of Google's SRE teams — giving practitioners the vocabulary and frameworks used by reliability engineers at the world's most reliable internet-scale systems.
What you'll learn
Define SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for production services
Use error budgets to make data-driven reliability vs velocity trade-offs
Identify and systematically reduce operational toil
Conduct blameless postmortems to learn from incidents without blame
Apply SRE principles to transform traditional operations teams
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16h
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Certificate
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Instructor
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Google Cloud Teaching Staff
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100K+ learners10 courses4.7 instructor rating
Developed by Google's SRE team and Google Cloud training, drawing on practices from Google's Site Reliability Engineering book.
Requirements
- General software engineering or operations background; no specific tools required
Who this course is for
- DevOps engineers and operations teams adopting SRE practices
- Engineering managers implementing reliability engineering programs
- Developers who want to understand how Google's infrastructure stays reliable
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Frequently asked questions
No — the course is self-contained and serves as an excellent companion or alternative to the book.
Yes — SLO-based reliability engineering and error budgets apply at any scale, from startups to enterprises.