Architecting for Scale, 2nd Edition

Preface

Architecting for Scale is about modernization. It’s about building and updating your critical applications to meet the needs of your increasingly demanding digital customers. It’s about high availability, it’s about architecting your applications using modern development and operations techniques, it’s about organizing your development teams to help your applications—and your business—succeed, it’s about scaling to your biggest days, it’s about utilizing the resources available to you in the cloud to meet these challenges.

The process of architecting for scale is so much more than handling a large volume of traffic.

Who Should Read This Book

This book is intended for architects, managers, and directors who build and operate large-scale applications and systems, whether in an engineering or an operations organization. If you manage software developers, system reliability engineers, or operation teams, or you run an organization that contains large-scale applications and systems, the suggestions and guidance provided in this book will help you make your applications run smoother and more reliably.

If your application started small and has seen incredible growth (and is now experiencing some of the growing pains associated with that growth), you might be suffering from reduced reliability and reduced availability. If you struggle with managing technical debt and associated application failures, this book will provide guidance in reducing that technical debt to make your ...