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Without established design patterns to guide them, developers have had to build distributed systems from scratch, and most of these systems are very unique indeed. Today, the increasing use of containers has paved the way for core distributed system patterns and reusable containerized components. This practical guide presents a collection of repeatable, generic patterns to help make the development of reliable distributed systems far more approachable and efficient.

Author Brendan Burns—Director of Engineering at Microsoft Azure—demonstrates how you can adapt existing software design patterns for designing and building reliable distributed applications. Systems engineers and application developers will learn how these long-established patterns provide a common language and framework for dramatically increasing the quality of your system.

Understand how patterns and reusable components enable the rapid development of reliable distributed systems
Use the side-car, adapter, and ambassador patterns to split your application into a group of containers on a single machine
Explore loosely coupled multi-node distributed patterns for replication, scaling, and communication between the components
Learn distributed system patterns for large-scale batch data processing covering work-queues, event-based processing, and coordinated workflows

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Brendan Burns is a Partner Architect in Microsoft Azure. Prior to Microsoft he worked at Google where he co-founded the Kubernetes project, built several cloud APIs and worked on websearch backends. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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Brendan Burns is a co-founder of the Kubernetes open source project (https://kubernetes.io). He has been involved with open source communities for more than two decades. Other projects that he has worked on include JMeter, Quake II on Linux, DroidDraw the Open Dynamics Engine and more.

He is currently work for Microsoft Azure where he is responsible for a number of public cloud services including the Azure Kubernetes Service, Linux on Azure, Azure Governance and Policy and cloud native open source.

He has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Studio Art from Williams College (https://williams.edu) and a PhD in robotics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (https://umass.edu). He lives in Seattle with his family and cat.

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Barry Kelly

Shallow introduction to Kubernetes for junior web app developers

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 May 2019

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The book is mis-titled. It ought to be something more like "Using Kubernetes: scaling up web apps".

The book advertises itself as being about distributed systems, but the first half is a handful of design patterns implemented over Kubernetes services, written at a level for engineers with about 3 years experience, in their first or second job.

The focus is very much on web apps that are request-oriented, and are only stateful to the degree that they are sticky to the client. If you're trying to do something more interesting than scaling up a CRUD web app, with distributed transactions, workflow systems etc. this book is not the place to go. In fact there's even an extremely cut down workflow example (a user sign up process presented as a linear list of tasks, an "event-based pipeline") without any mention of the concept of a workflow engine, or any consideration of rollback and retries, error states and recovery. It seems oddly blinkered.

There is no mention of back-pressure in the index, and thus I presume the book. This is a fatal flaw. The only response to load discussed is scaling up, not scaling back or dropping requests. Rate limiting is briefly mentioned, but only at the edge of the system, not in a responsive way to the state of the system. This book will not warn new developers about the surprising failure modes you see when you don't have back-pressure. Lack of back-pressure usually means having a system failure cliff edge instead of gradual degradation of service, and it's something you learn on the job if you don't know about it.

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R. Rose

Worthwhile read, a good concise reference

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 23 May 2018

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Really good overview of system architecture in general and especially useful for Kubernetes with the reference patterns being included. Overall the book is quite brief, but its a good reference and would definitely recommend this text to cover some of the key concepts required to design and maintain these types of systems.

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Ignatius Nelson Cognito

Shallow

Reviewed in Canada on 25 May 2022

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Barebones introduction to basic design patterns. Juniors would be better served by picking up a more in depth design patterns book and watching some Kubernetes tutorials on Udemy or YouTube.

Mahesh Pal

DON'T buy this book

Reviewed in India on 23 February 2022

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The book has very shallow knowledge that you can get from tutorials. And it cost too much.

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Camila Corradi

Too much focus in Docker and Kubernetes

Reviewed in Brazil on 24 July 2020

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The book is fine. Has good references and also gives an overview of some design patterns used when building distributed systems. The book focus too much in Kubernetes and Docker, and I understand that, since these technologies are the building blocks of DS. But, I would like to see more concepts and broad ideas. If any other technology replaces docker and kubernetes, this book will be useless.

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