Book description
"There's an incredible amount of depth and thinking in the practices described here, and it's impressive to see it all in one place."
-Win Treese, coauthor of Designing Systems for Internet Commerce
The Practice of Cloud System Administration, Volume 2, focuses on "distributed" or "cloud" computing and brings a DevOps/SRE…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Practice of Cloud System Administration, The as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book felt like a chance to sit with a few experienced Ops people and hear their war stories.
The book is full of concrete, actionable learnings that are essential for running software, including operational requirements (e.g., configuration, draining, hot swaps, feature toggles, graceful degradation, etc.), software architecture (e.g., three-tier web service, four-tier web service, load balancing models etc.), scaling patterns (e.g., horizontal duplication, service splits, caching, etc.), resiliency patterns (software vs hardware resiliency, spare capacity, failure domains, etc.), and much more.
I loved being able to pick up decades of experience and hard-won knowledge by just flipping through a…
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