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A must-read book for any software developer.
 
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philipcristiano | 6 other reviews | Mar 29, 2023 |
It was written in 2007, and it is starting to show its age in several respects. Despite this, there is still a lot of relevant advice on how to make software work well in production.

For me, the best parts of the book were the cases studies, and the recommendations in the Stability chapters. There is some repetition in parts of the book, and it feels a bit dated at times. For example, several issues in the last chapter, like monitoring and continuous delivery seem to have become standard practice by now. Nevertheless, it is a worthwhile read, especially these days when more and more developers also operate the systems they develop.

Full review on my blog: https://henrikwarne.com/2016/10/27/book-review-release-it/
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Henrik_Warne | 6 other reviews | Dec 13, 2020 |
This book is amazing.

If you are a person who is responsible for the operations, uptime, stability, responsibity of the system you write, or you are a developer who is being told you should care, this is the book for you.

It goes into understanding your system not just as the little piece of code you write but as a large thing with many moving parts that someone has to care about. It shows what to care about in the large ,but also how you can take that care and convert it into decisions and designs to make down at the individual component level.

All this time it's filled with lived experience, and the book is 100% designed for he practical, not the idealogical or theoretical.

Like probably many people, I became a devops person because I was the sucker who wasn't afraid of deploying the code on a unix server or who wasn't afraid to debug a working system in the late evening. As such I didn't have a formal or even learned ops background. This book is one of the things this year that I feel has actually qualified me to say I'm an ops person and not just a dev who plays one from time to time.
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