Book description
A single dramatic software failure can cost a company millions of dollars - but can be avoided with simple changes to design and architecture. This new edition of the best-selling industry standard shows you how to create systems that run longer, with fewer failures, and recover better when bad things…
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Why read it?
2 authors picked Release It! as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
The marvel of this book is that it's a rare one: most of the books focus on the construction part of software, all the design and preparation. But what happens once the system is out there, launched? Release It! focuses on the software architecture aspects that entail designing a platform to make it reliable once it’s been released.
It touches on concepts like logging, locking, circuit breakers, and it’s written from the author’s experience with real-life examples (and even code snippets). As someone who has worked on several different types of software products (and been on-call), I’ve enjoyed reading the…
From Mariano's list on building high-quality enterprise software.
A common reason for microservice projects to fail is a lack of understanding of how to build resilient and fault-tolerant microservices.
This book was a game-changer for me, providing essential strategies to address these challenges. It taught me how to avoid anti-patterns like Cascading Failures and embrace patterns like Circuit Breaker and Bulkhead to manage temporary network issues and overload situations. The real-world solutions it offers were immediately applicable to my projects.
From Magnus' list on mastering Java and Spring-based microservices.
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