I was amazed by the depth of this book, and the way it covers several aspects of what it takes to operate a complex and distributed software system. I was particularly impressed with the details of some chapters related to monitoring, load balancing (at the front end and back end), designing applications to manage overload conditions, and being on call.
I think the book has a lot to teach and inspire. Some of the approaches described are very counterintuitive like the error budget, and the blameless postmortem culture. One of the shortcomings I noticed was that some chapters are hard to read because they treat rather advanced topics. The fact that the book has very few illustrations makes it hard to understand some of the concepts at times. Overall, an invaluable resource.
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Kindle edition is horribly formatted
The Kindle edition is horribly formatted. Headings, subheadings and call-outs are not visible as such, but appear as normal body text. Unacceptable for such an expensive publication.Additional information: this is on Windows 10, with the Kindle reader app from the Windows Store. Attached screenshot shows how the author and editor credits, as well as a quote, appear as normal body text at the start of a chapter: this problem persists through the entire publication, and is especially annoying for subheadings. All my other Kindle books look fine using the same reader app.
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