The Practice of Cloud System Administration
Thomas Limoncelli
- 01 september 2014
- 9780133478532
Samenvatting:
"There"s an incredible amount of depth and thinking in the practicesdescribed here, and it"s impressive to see it all in one place." –Win Treese, coauthor of Designing Systems for Internet Commerce bold boldThe Practice of Cloud System Administration, Volume 2,/bold /bold 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: boldDesigning /boldand building modern web and distributed systems bulletlist bullet Fundamentals of large system design bullet Understand the new software engineering implications of cloud administration bullet Make systems that are resilient to failure and grow and scale dynamically bullet Implement DevOps principles and cultural changes bullet IaaS/PaaS/SaaS and virtual platform selection /bullet /bulletlist boldOperating/bold and running systems using the latest DevOps/SRE strategies bulletlist bullet Upgrade production systems with zero down-time bullet What and how to automate; how to decide what not to automate bullet On-call best practices that improve uptime bullet Why distributed systems require fundamentally different system administration techniques bullet Identify and resolve resiliency problems before they surprise you /bullet /bulletlist boldAssessing/bold and evaluating your team"s operational effectiveness bulletlist bullet Manage the scientific process of continuous improvement bullet A forty-page, pain-free assessment system you can start using today /bullet /bulletlist