High Availability

Site Reliability Engineering

A discipline applying software engineering principles to infrastructure and operations to create scalable, reliable systems.

Chaos Engineering

The discipline of experimenting on distributed systems to build confidence in their ability to withstand turbulent conditions.

Incident Management

The processes and tools for detecting, responding to, resolving, and learning from service disruptions.

Runbook

A documented set of procedures for handling routine operations and troubleshooting common issues.

Capacity Planning

The process of determining the production capacity needed to meet changing demands for an organisation's products.

The practice of securely storing, accessing, and managing sensitive credentials, API keys, and certificates.

Adding more machines or nodes to a system to handle increased load.

Automated notifications triggered when system metrics or conditions exceed predefined thresholds.

The automatic detection of devices and services on a network, enabling dynamic service-to-service communication.

An open-source automation tool for configuration management, application deployment, and task automation.

Maintaining two identical production environments to enable instant switching between versions.

The practice of recording events, errors, and system activities for debugging, auditing, and analysis.

A design approach where a system continues to operate with reduced functionality when components fail.