<div dir="ltr"><div>Understood. I'm less about targeting Google specifically than thinking of ways to better my ability to figure out problems that cross skills domains like SQL, Networking, and OS. For example. <br><br></div>Lemme go look up that class. My current project is the security stuff. However, it'd be nice to start thinking about the next thing, since I think rather slowly. :)<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 9:59 AM, Jerald Sheets <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com" target="_blank">questy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Yeah… that’s not exactly what they mean when they say “site reliability engineer”.</div><div><br></div><div>In fact, of the three separate things they tried to interview me for, the initial 3, 4, or 5 steps of the interview process had nothing to do with the position, and when getting finally to a Google human in Atlanta, it was COMPLETELY different than what the previous levels of interview had asked for. And none of it, at any level, referred to “end to end testing”.</div><div><br></div><div>I’m told that there’s been a recent overhaul in the recruiting and interviewing process there, but they just haven’t been consistent at any time I’ve spoken with them.</div><div><br></div><div>As for the actual core of your question… If you can, do the Server Tuning class from RedHat. It does the whole shebang concentrating on CGROUPs. Best overall introduction to the tech I’ve seen anywhere, and I’d say I’m a much better “tuner” in regards to Linux boxes than I was in the past solely due to that class.</div><div><br></div><br><div>
<div>Jerald Sheets</div><div><a href="mailto:questy@gmail.com" target="_blank">questy@gmail.com</a></div><div><br></div><br>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On May 21, 2015, at 9:13 AM, leam hall <<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hey guys,<br><br></div>I'm seeing more jobs similar to Google's "Site Reliability Engineer". Someone who has a good handle on testing things from end to end to find bottle-necks, risks, and solve problems. I've been doing something like that for a while, but would like to get better. Any books, courses, tools, or ideas on how to do that?<br><br></div>Thanks!<br><br></div>Leam<br><div><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div><div><a href="http://leamhall.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mind on a Mission</a></div></div>
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