The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2, Volume 2

Thomas A. Limoncelli · Strata R. Chalup · Christina J. Hogan

Sep 2014 · Addison-Wesley Professional

4.2

13 reviews

Ebook

560

Pages

Eligible

About this ebook

“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

Ratings and reviews

4.2

13 reviews

Chapi Chapo

February 28, 2016

Do not go in depth in any topics, and contains some errors that are hard to forgive (confusion between sharding and DHT, in particular, triggered that review). Not worth a read of Wikipedia page on distributed systems, which is a bit disappointing.

1 person found this review helpful

Adrian Colley

September 12, 2015

This book covers about 85% of what any programmer needs to know to be a fully competent Google Site Reliability Engineer. It's written like a textbook for a training course, but it serves well as a reference text. I never tire of recommending it to my colleagues, even though spreading this knowledge reduces the scarcity of my personal marketable skill set. Despite the use of "cloud" in the title, this is not just for 1000+-node IaaS providers or their customers. It is a guide to modern system administration techniques that any online business will need eventually if it dreams of being depended on by millions of users. (Full disclosure: I used to work in Google SRE, and while there I even got Tom to autograph one of his other books for me.)

4 people found this review helpful

Froke

March 29, 2020

For read this book you must be online. You can't download this book after purchase.

About the author

Thomas A. Limoncelli is an internationally recognized author, speaker, and system administrator with more than twenty years of experience at companies like Google, Bell Labs, and StackExchange.com.

Strata R. Chalup has more than twenty-five years of experience in Silicon Valley, focusing on IT strategy, best-practices, and scalable infrastructures at firms that include Apple, Sun, Cisco, McAfee, and Palm.

Christina J. Hogan has more than twenty years of experience in system administration and network engineering, from Silicon Valley to Italy and Switzerland. She has a master’s degree in computer science, a doctorate in aeronautical engineering, and has been part of a Formula 1 racing team.

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