Playbook · Vol. 01 · SRE
A 10-page field guide on Google's SRE principles and how we actually use them at Andes Path on real production systems — including a 30-item readiness checklist you can audit your own team against.
What's inside
The same playbook we use at project kickoff with our clients. Specific. Direct. No vendor pitch.
SEC 01
Google's seven SRE principles, rewritten as a working operator's toolkit. SLOs, error budgets, golden signals, blameless postmortems.
SEC 02
Why retrofitting reliability is expensive — and why instrumenting on day one costs less than the project plan you'll need to add it later.
SEC 03
The three categories most teams sit in. Why familiarity with the concepts isn't the same as engineering discipline.
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The automation maturity ladder, golden signals as a diagnostic system, error budgets as decision-making, and the trade-off triangle.
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30 items across 5 categories. Audit your own team, evaluate a vendor, or give a new engineering lead a starting point.
In their words · From the playbook
The cost of adopting this from the start is much lower than adding it at the end. By the time you want to be production-ready, if the infrastructure isn't there, you're looking at a massive lift while the team is still expected to ship features.
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Vol. 01
The first in our playbook series
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What's actually in the playbook?10 pages: Google's 7 SRE principles rewritten as an operator's toolkit, the automation maturity ladder, the four golden signals as a diagnostic system, error budgets as a decision-making framework, and a 30-item readiness checklist across 5 categories.
Engineering leaders making real reliability trade-offs — VPs of Engineering, CTOs, heads of platform, SRE leads, and technical founders past prototype stage. It assumes a working knowledge of production systems.
No. The playbook is a working document — the same framework we use at project kickoff with our clients. There's a closing page about Andes Path, but the other 9 pages are checklist, framework, and examples you can use whether you ever talk to us or not.
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Yes. The PDF is freely shareable inside your organisation. Use it to audit a team, evaluate a vendor, or onboard a new engineering lead.
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