Practice of Cloud System Administration : DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2 by Thomas Limoncelli, Strata Chalup and Christina Hogan (2014, Trade Paperback)

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Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional ISBN-10: 032194318X Format: Trade Paperback LCCN: 2014-024033 brand: Addison Wesley Professional Author: Thomas Limoncelli, Strata Chalup, Christina Hogan TitleLeading: The Item Weight: 29.6 Oz Synopsis: The Practice of Cloud System Administration, Volume 2 focuses on today's fastest-growing areas of system administration: cloud computing and DevOps. For the first time, it brings together comprehensive knowledge and best practices for administering systems in the age of cloud computing, and for architecting, scaling, and operating services that perform reliably and well. The new companion volume to our best-selling 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, 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 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 on a comprehensive approach. Case studies and examples from Google, Etsy, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and other industry giants are explained in practical ways that are useful to all enterprises. The new companion to the best-selling first volume, The Practice of System and Network Administration, Second Edition, this guide offers expert coverage of the following and many other crucial topics: 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 Operating 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 On-call best practices that improve uptime Why distributed systems require fundamentally different system administration techniques Identify and resolve resiliency problems before they surprise you Assessing and evaluating your team's operational effectiveness Manage the scientific process of continuous improvement A forty-page, pain-free assessment system you can start using today Publication Year: 2014 Illustrated: Yes Intended Audience: Scholarly & Professional Item Length: 1.2 in Type: Textbook Item Width: 7.1 in ISBN-13: 9780321943187 Subject Area: Computers, Business & Economics Number of Pages: 560 Pages Publication Name: Practice of Cloud System Administration : Devops and Sre Practices for Web Services, Volume 2 Item Height: 9.1 in Table Of Content: Part I: Design: Building It Chapter 1: Designing in a Distributed World Chapter 2: Designing for Operations Chapter 3: Selecting a Service Platform Chapter 4: Application Architectures Chapter 5: Design Patterns for Scaling Chapter 6: Design Patterns for Resiliency Part II: Operations: Running It Chapter 7: Operations in a Distributed World Chapter 8: DevOps Culture Chapter 9: Service Delivery: The Build Phase Chapter 10: Service Delivery: The Deployment Phase Chapter 11: Upgrading Live Services Chapter 12: Automation Chapter 13: Design Documents Chapter 14: Oncall Chapter 15: Disaster Preparedness Chapter 16: Monitoring Fundamentals Chapter 17: Monitoring Architecture and Practice Chapter 18: Capacity Planning Chapter 19: Creating KPIs Chapter 20: Operational Excellence LC Classification Number: TK5105.5.L529 2014 Language: English gtin13: 9780321943187 Subject: Systems Architecture / Distributed Systems & Computing, Cloud Computing, Operating Systems / General, Networking / General, Production & Operations Management