I wish that life of a programmer would only be a about writing clean, and well-tested code. "Clean Code" would be my bible. My code would've then somehow be deployed somewhere and run flawlessly. Unfortunately, life isn't that simple. There is much more in being a real-world programmer. The code actually needs to run in the production environment and must be used by a bunch of users. And they tend to break it :)
Finishing the code is just a beginning of a system's life. It goes to the production and all sorts of things tend to happen. Guy who wrote this book had an incredible knowledge and experience with dealing with the production environments and he's sharing his experience with us. This book is well structured and grouped by related topics, but essentially it is just a set of stories and advices on operating production systems, and creating code that is supposed to run in the production. I'd like to name two "main" topics that you're going to read about: common programming practices and non-programming part - dealing with the live production systems.
Common programming practices include a rich variety of things like: Dealing with timeouts, capturing and understanding thread dumps, working with networks, understanding and tuning garbage collection, configuring proper logging, or understanding ORMs and related issues.
Dealing with the live production systems will discuss topics like: Embracing "fail fast" approach, understanding and dealing with SLAs, scaling of systems, performance monitoring, load balancing, designing configurable systems and so on.
Even though that "Release It!" is ~8 years old (as of this review), time didn't hurt it much. Yes, yes - we don't need to deal with RMIs and CORBas and old EJBs and manual synchronisation so often in "enterprise programming" today (thanks to the rich variety of mature enterprise frameworks) - but it's a no big deal. I still felt that this book was very relevant even today in the world of clouds, and MEANs and microservices and other buzzwords. I'm pretty sure that its message is going to last here for quite a while.
"Release It!" is the "Clean Code" of production systems. Somebody's already been there. Take this shortcut and learn how to make your life after the release easier. Avoid mistakes, learn from the best. It's been a wonderful read.
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Fabiano C. de Oliveira
Ótimo guia e referência para um release de software mais tranquilo
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