Chapter 4: Designing System Deployment Architectures
How we deploy systems determines so much about how those systems will perform and how resilient they will be for years to come. A good understanding of design components and principles is necessary for us to understand in order to approach the design of the platforms that will carry our workloads. Remember, at the end of the day, only the applications running at the very top of the stack matter - everything beneath the applications, whether the operating system, hypervisor, storage, hardware, and others are just tools used to enable the final application-level workloads to do what they need to do best. It is easy to feel that these other components matter individually, but they do not. To ...
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