Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers)
by Michael Nygard
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Author: Michael NygardEdition: Paperback
Format: Illustrated
Published: 2007-03-30
ISBN: 0978739213
Number of pages: 326
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
Book Reviews of Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers)
Book Review: Interesting, but inconsistent
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a book of advices on how to make the system running. Not just to write and release it (no pun intended), but to keep it running after the release.
The book is about prior planning for capacity and stability, designing systems capable of handling the load while being resilient and fault-tolerant, build it in a maintainable and adaptable way, so that it lives through the years. A great deal of information in it too.
Overall, it was a pleasant reading, because in most parts it matches precisely what I'm doing on my job and what I've learned to be the right way of doing through hard experience. As always, such practical convergence with published material is very comforting.
Why did I give it 4 stars then ?
Because the book itself needs more work.
It is poorly structured and is stylistically informal. It doesn't have a plot, but it is also not a collection of independent essays or articles. Near the end it feels like the author just gave up the structure and stuffed the book with random thoughts.
Despite the author's promise for each part of the book to have a case study, only 3 out of the 4 unconnected book parts are opened with one, and the studies are of anecdotal nature. A few pages of horror in everybody's eyes to find out that a janitor had accidentally pulled the plug, something like that.
As the few architectural patterns suggested by the author reside near the middle of the book, the first half is full of forward references, like "but wait till you see the MagicPattern !". The patterns when you encounter them are useful but are explained shortly and in informal manner again.
A lot of assorted hints, ranging from TCP handshaking to stripping whitespace off web pages and wrapping a web service around a database. Interesting, but inconsistent.
It is difficult for me to be unbiased about a book like that, because, like I said, it correctly describes many of the practical considerations that I already knew in the first place.
I'd say it is the kind of book for the architects with development past. It will be useless for you unless you have a lot of practical experience as a developer. On the other hand, if you are a beginning developer, it won't help much either because it doesn't offer any analysis or any kind of formal textbook kind of information.
Summary of Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers)
Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting yourapplication ready to ship is only half the battle. Did you design
your system to survive a sudden rush of visitors from Digg or
Slashdot? Or an influx of real world customers from 100 different
countries? Are you ready for a world filled with flakey networks,
tangled databases, and impatient users?
If you're a developer and don't want to be on call at 3AM for the
rest of your life, this book will help.
In Release It!, Michael T. Nygard shows you how to design and
architect your application for the harsh realities it will face.
You'll learn how to design your application for maximum uptime,
performance, and return on investment.
Mike explains that many problems with systems today start with the
design:
"It's disconnected from the real world. It's the same as cars
designed solely in the cool comfort of the lab-they look great in
models and CAD systems, but don't work well in the real world. You
want a car designed by somebody who knows that oil changes are always
3,000 miles late; that the tires must work just as well on the last
sixteenth of an inch of tread as on the first; and that you will
certainly, at some point, stomp on the brakes while you're holding an
Egg McMuffin in one hand and a cell phone in the other."
With a combination of case studies and practical advice, Patterns to
follow and Anti-Patterns to avoid, Release It! will help you manage
the pitfalls that cost companies huge amounts of time and money each
year.
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