Practice of Cloud System Administration, The: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2 1st Edition

by Thomas Limoncelli (Author), Strata Chalup (Author), Christina Hogan (Author)

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“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

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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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Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (September 3, 2014)
Language : English
Paperback : 560 pages
ISBN-10 : 032194318X
ISBN-13 : 978-0321943187
Item Weight : 2 pounds
Dimensions : 7.05 x 1.3 x 9.05 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #337,119 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sean

great in-depth discussion of site reliability and scaling practices

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2018

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Illuminating real-world examples, great in-depth discussion of site reliability and scaling practices, and thorough explanations of the core concepts. A good companion to the AWS SysOps exam and friends.

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Jeff Ryan

Terrific read on IT operations done right!

Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2016

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The title mentions Cloud administration, but this book is much more than that. The concepts covered here are excellent foundational IT operational ideas that are relevant to legacy IT systems. This is a great complement to the SRE book from Google Engineers. This book should be read by every IT leader who is interested in operating a high functioning team.

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Saba Jamalian

A must read for every Cloud engineer and recent grad ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2016

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A must read for every Cloud engineer and recent grad Software Engineer who plan to work on distributed systems.

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Rene Lambin

Great book, I have 20+ years of IT-operations experiance ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2018

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Great book, I have 20+ years of IT-operations experiance with running critical systems, yet still learned a lot from this book, Recommend it! /Rene Lambin

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Ashok

Useful book on systems admin for the Cloud

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2017

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Cloud systems admin book gave me a lot of insights into how a Systems Admin thinks and operates - useful to understand this workflow for someone like me in Information Security field

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Brian Dworak

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2015

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Awesome Book. would recommend to anyone gettting into the Agile Devops area

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Michael Kavis

I have a lot of experience operating cloud based solutions and this book was an excellent source of information for me

Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2015

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Bought this book to supplement some research I am doing. Haven't read it from cover to cover yet but have been through a number of chapters that are relevant to my research. I have a lot of experience operating cloud based solutions and this book was an excellent source of information for me. The authors obviously have years of experience running web scale systems. I highly recommend this book and do yourself a favor and make sure your organization follows the advice in this book. Running webscale systems is a tough task and requires strategies like the ones in this book.

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ibrahim

Absolutely worth it

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2019

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Adrian Colley

A standard reference

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 25, 2015

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As I said in a company tech talk recently, if you took an average software engineer and got him/her to read this book, you could replace me as an operations engineer. As my manager was in the audience, this was perhaps an unwise truth to share. Quite simply, this book is a comprehensive overview and detailed instructional manual for the modern techniques of DevOps/SRE-style system administration.

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Mark McDonnell

Definitely worth your time

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 20, 2014

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I work at BBC News using a well known cloud based infrastructure provider. This book helped me to understand important decisions that need to be made when designing a distributed and concurrent system. Many fundamental concepts were introduced and broken down for easy digestion. A very good book.

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Must read for sysadmins

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2016

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I read first book yandears ago and thought that it was good. This one is even better. Not technical stuff. Some paragraphs a bit boring and reminds me of dreadful itil. But overall steers you towards agile/devops best practices. I'm a linux/ network admin and I found it brilliant.

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Szabolcs Szallar

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2016

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This book will turn your into DevOps engineer.

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Rajwardhan Prohit

a balanced book with lot of ground coverage

Reviewed in India on December 8, 2017

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Excellent book with rich, informative and easy to understand explanation of managing in a cloud architecture. Does not go into too much technical details making it easier to read for anyone who likes to cover broad level understanding. A must have item in the library of every cloud architect, management professional and administrator

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