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Betsy Beyer is a Technical Writer for Google in New York City specializing in Site Reliability Engineering. She has previously written documentation for Google’s Data Center and Hardware Operations Teams in Mountain View and across its globally distributed datacenters. Before moving to New York, Betsy was a lecturer on technical writing at Stanford University. En route to her current career, Betsy studied International Relations and English Literature, and holds degrees from Stanford and Tulane.

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	Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems by Betsy Beyer (Editor), Chris Jones (Editor), Jennifer Petoff (Editor) 4.21 avg rating — 2,932 ratings — published 2016 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Site Reliability Workbook: Practical Ways to Implement SRE by Betsy Beyer (Editor), Niall Richard Murphy (Editor), David K. Rensin (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 411 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems by Heather Adkins, Betsy Beyer, Paul Blankinship 3.89 avg rating — 201 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Release Engineering by Dinah McNutt, Betsy Beyer 3.06 avg rating — 17 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Monitoring Distributed Systems by Rob Ewaschuk, Betsy Beyer 3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How SRE relates to DevOps by Betsy Beyer, Niall Richard Murphy, Liz Fong-Jones liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“When a team must allocate a disproportionate amount of time to resolving tickets at the cost of spending time improving the service, scalability and reliability suffer.”
― Betsy Beyer, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

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“team size should not scale directly with service growth.”
― Betsy Beyer, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

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“Hope is not a strategy.”
― Betsy Beyer, Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

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