<P style="MARGIN: 0px">“There’s an incredible amount of depth and thinking in the practicesdescribed here, and it’s impressive to see it all in one place.”</P> <I> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">–Win Treese, coauthor of Designing Systems for Internet Commerce</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </I> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B> <I> <B>The Practice of Cloud System Administration, Volume 2,</B> </I> </B> focuses on “distributed” or “cloud” computing and brings a DevOps/SRE sensibility to the practice of system administration. Unsatisfied with books that cover either design or operations in isolation, the authors created this authoritative reference centered on a comprehensive approach.</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Case studies and examples from Google, Etsy, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, and other industry giants are explained in practical ways that are useful to all enterprises. The new companion to the best-selling first volume, <I>The Practice of System and Network Administration, Second Edition,</I> this guide offers expert coverage of the following and many other crucial topics:</P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Designing </B>and building modern web and distributed systems</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Fundamentals of large system design</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Understand the new software engineering implications of cloud administration</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Make systems that are resilient to failure and grow and scale dynamically</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Implement DevOps principles and cultural changes</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">IaaS/PaaS/SaaS and virtual platform selection</DIV> </LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Operating</B> and running systems using the latest DevOps/SRE strategies</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Upgrade production systems with zero down-time</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">What and how to automate; how to decide what not to automate</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">On-call best practices that improve uptime</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Why distributed systems require fundamentally different system administration techniques</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Identify and resolve resiliency problems before they surprise you</DIV> </LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> <B>Assessing</B> and evaluating your team’s operational effectiveness</P> <UL> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">Manage the scientific process of continuous improvement</DIV> <LI> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px">A forty-page, pain-free assessment system you can start using today</DIV> </LI> </UL> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P>