Platform & Infrastructure
Site Reliability Engineer
If you like the kind of work a Site Reliability Engineer does, every challenge here gives you a chance to do that work on a real industry brief.
Skills you'll need
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- AnalysisAdvancedNew
Diagnose Modern Transport-Protocol Performance for an OTT Streamer
Receive the current delivery architecture (HTTP/2 origin + CDN), 4 weeks of Conviva-style QoE (quality of experience) metrics, and access to a synthetic-client harness (Linux + …
- Quic Http3
- Network Measurement
- Transport Protocols
Advanced Computer Networks - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Postmortem and Action-Item Tracking for a 3-Service Outage
Re-write the existing postmortem using the Google SRE blameless format: timeline (anchored to UTC), what went well, what went poorly, where we got lucky, action items (S.M.A.R.T…
- Postmortems
- Blameless Culture
- Action Item Tracking
Site Reliability Engineering - AnalysisAdvancedNew
Capacity Planning Model for a Black-Friday Traffic Surge
Pull 18 months of per-service request rate + utilization from Prometheus. Forecast BFCM traffic per service using a baseline + multiplicative seasonal model (Prophet or statsmod…
- Capacity Planning
- Forecasting
- Autoscaling
Site Reliability Engineering - AnalysisAdvancedNew
Debug Latency Tail With Distributed Tracing on a Logistics SaaS
Receive 7 days of anonymized trace data in Tempo, the service map (12 services), and the customer complaint log. Investigate: filter the slowest 1 percent of traces, identify th…
- Distributed Tracing
- Performance Analysis
- Tempo
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Why Ewance
- AnalysisAdvancedNew
Randomized Load Balancer with the Power of Two Choices
Simulate four placement policies on a 24-hour anonymized connection-establishment trace (around 4.1 billion events): (1) random-1, (2) round-robin, (3) P2C with instantaneous lo…
- Power Of Two Choices
- Load Balancing
- Randomized Algorithms
Randomized Algorithms - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Define SLOs and Error Budgets for a Real-Time Trading API
Pull 90 days of API latency + error data per endpoint from Prometheus (anonymized exports provided). Propose Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for 3 services × 2 SLI types (availa…
- Slo Definition
- Error Budgets
- Sli Design
Site Reliability Engineering - AnalysisAdvancedNew
TCP Congestion Control Comparison on a Long-Fat Network
Set up two Linux test hosts in Sydney + Frankfurt cloud regions (or one host pair with tc-netem emulating 280ms RTT). Run iperf3 transfers using CUBIC and BBR at 4 loss rates (0…
- Tcp Ip
- Congestion Control
- Performance Testing
Computer Networks
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