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Practical Site Reliability Engineering

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Product type Book
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839563
Pages 390 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (3):
Pethuru Raj Chelliah Pethuru Raj Chelliah
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Shreyash Naithani Shreyash Naithani
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Shailender Singh Shailender Singh
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Demystifying the Site Reliability Engineering Paradigm 2. Microservices Architecture and Containers 3. Microservice Resiliency Patterns 4. DevOps as a Service 5. Container Cluster and Orchestration Platforms 6. Architectural and Design Patterns 7. Reliability Implementation Techniques 8. Realizing Reliable Systems - the Best Practices 9. Service Resiliency 10. Containers, Kubernetes, and Istio Monitoring 11. Post-Production Activities for Ensuring and Enhancing IT Reliability 12. Service Meshes and Container Orchestration Platforms 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

IT reliability challenges and solution approaches


A resilient application keeps processing data and doing transactions, even when one or more components of the application fail due to an internal or external reason. That is, when a software system is under attack, the system has to find a way out to survive or to come back to the original state quickly. Therefore, it is imperative that every complicated and mission-critical system has to be designed, developed, and deployed using the most applicable resiliency properties. In other words, a system that is not designed with resiliency as the core feature is bound to fail at some point. For the forthcoming IoT, blockchain, and AI-enabled digital transformation and intelligence era, resilient IT infrastructures, platforms, and software applications are the most important ingredients to attain the intended and envisaged success. Let's digress a bit and discuss why this is so.

Highly distributed environments pose new challenges—centralized computing...

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