O’Reilly eBook – Architecting for Scale

When traffic spikes, apps can fail. Are you ready? Architect your apps for scale, uptime, and the unexpected.

In this practical guide written by a distributed systems expert, learn how to build apps that scale to handle unpredictable traffic with zero downtime for customers.
In this book excerpt you will learn:

  • How scaling affects the availability of your services
  • Principles of service-based application architecture and their role in reducing service failures and brownouts
  • Common design patterns for managing data in distributed applications
  • How to understand, measure, and mitigate risk in your systems
  • When and how to move to cloud infrastructure

The second edition of Architecting for Scale provides a pragmatic approach for building systems that can handle huge amounts of traffic, data, and demand. It includes a focus on modern architecture paradigms including microservices, service-based applications, and practical guidance for evaluating and moving towards cloud-based infrastructure

Subscribe to the Cloud Insider Newsletter

This is your go-to resource for the latest news and tips on the following topics and more, XaaS, AWS, Microsoft Azure, DevOps, virtualization, the hybrid cloud, and cloud security. Delivered Mondays and Wednesdays

Subscribe to the Cloud Insider Newsletter

This is your go-to resource for the latest news and tips on the following topics and more, XaaS, AWS, Microsoft Azure, DevOps, virtualization, the hybrid cloud, and cloud security. Delivered Mondays and Wednesdays

Resource Details

Cockroach Labs logo
Provided by:
Cockroach Labs
Topic:
Cloud
Format:
PDF