THE PRACTICE OFCLOUD SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
DESIGNING AND OPERATING
LARGE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS
The new companion volume to the best-selling Practice of System and Network Administration!
Volume 2, The Practice of Cloud System Administration, focuses on “distributed” or “cloud” computing and brings a DevOps/SRE sensibility to the practice of system administration. Unsatisfied with books that cover either design or operations in isolation, the authors created this authoritative reference centered around a comprehensive approach. Case studies and examples from Google, Twitter, Facebook, Etsy, Netflix, Amazon and other industry giants are explained in practical ways that are useful to all enterprises. The new companion volume to the best-selling Volume 1, Practice of System and Network Administration, it offers expert coverage of these and many other crucial topics:
“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, co-author of Designing Systems for Internet Commerce.
DESIGNING and building modern web and distributed systems:
- Fundamentals of large system design
- Understand the new software engineering implications of cloud administration
- Make systems that are resilient to failure and grow and scale dynamically
- Implement DevOps principles and cultural changes
- IaaS/ PaaS/ SaaS and virtual platform selection
ASSESSING and evaluating your team’s operational effectiveness:
- Manage through a scientific process of continuous improvement
- A 40+ page pain-free assessment system you can start using today
OPERATING and and running systems using the latest DevOps/ SRE strategies:
- Upgrade production systems with zero down-time
- What and how to automate; How to decide what not to automate
- Oncall best practices that improve uptime
- Why distributed systems require fundamentally different system administration techniques
- Identify and resolve resiliency problems before they surprise you.