September 2014
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
15h 52m
English
book
Practice of Cloud System Administration, The: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2
by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup, Christina J. Hogan
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Preface
Which of the following statements are true?
1. The most reliable systems are built using cheap, unreliable components.
2. The techniques that Google uses to scale to billions of users follow the same patterns you can use to scale a system that handles hundreds of users.
3. The more risky a procedure is, the more you should do it.
4. Some of the most important software features are the ones that users never see.
5. You should pick random machines and power them off.
6. The code for every feature Facebook will announce in the next six months is probably in your browser already.
7. Updating software multiple times a day requires little human effort.
8. Being oncall doesn’t have to be a stressful, painful experience.
9. You shouldn’t monitor ...
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