10 — gRPC

Site Reliability Engineering: From Foundations to Internet-Scale Systems

The complete 184-chapter, 15-part Site Reliability Engineering curriculum — from Linux internals and distributed-systems theory through reliability engineering, observability, incident response, platform engineering, and Staff/Principal-level MAANG interview preparation, ordered the way SRE expertise actually develops rather than as a topic index.

1 — Linux Internals Every SRE Must Know

The kernel-level mental model — syscalls, the VFS, the scheduler — that turns 'the server is slow' from a guess into a diagnosable claim.

11 — TLS and Certificates

The handshake, cipher negotiation, and certificate chain validation that fail silently until an expiry takes down a service nobody remembered depended on it.

12 — Load Balancers

L4 vs L7 load balancing, health check design, and why a load balancer's own failure mode is often the single biggest blast radius in the stack.

13 — Reverse Proxies

What a reverse proxy actually buys you — TLS termination, routing, buffering — and the latency and failure modes it adds in exchange.