Book: Release It! - Michael Nygard

Currently Reading Rate this book 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) by Michael T. Nygard 4.21 · ![[./resources/book-release-it-michael-nygard.resources/embedded.svg]] Rating details · 2,136 ratings · 166 reviews Whether it’s in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application ready to ship is only half the battle. Did you design your system to survivef 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 for 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. (less) Get A Copy Amazon Online Stores ▾ Book Links ▾ Paperback, 326 pages Published April 6th 2007 by Pragmatic Bookshelf (first published March 30th 2007) Original Title Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers) (Pragmatic Programmers) . ISBN 0978739213 (ISBN13: 9780978739218) . Edition Language . Other Editions (15) All Editions | Add a New Edition | Combine …Less Detail edit details Edit My Activity Review of ISBN 9780978739218 Rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Shelves currently-reading, devops, non-fictionedit Format Paperback edit Status January 26, 2019 – Shelved as: non-fiction4Show more Progress I’m on page of Release It!: Design an… Review Add a review flag comment . Friend Reviews (9) 3.75 average rating Mar 20, 2017 Jo rated it really liked it Shelves: self-learning Some parts haven’t aged that well, other parts contain timeless and priceless knowledge.If you’ve been on the receiving end of an on-call pager, this book is for you! flag Like · comment · see review Aug 05, 2018 Samuel rated it really liked it Like · comment Oct 01, 2016 Sandro Mancuso rated it really liked it Like · comment Dec 14, 2011 Michel Grootjans rated it liked it Like · comment Feb 19, 2019 Gert marked it as to-read · review of another edition Like · comment Nov 27, 2018 Gien Verschatse marked it as to-read · review of another edition Shelves: non-fiction, programming flag Like · comment Jul 30, 2017 Koen Metsu marked it as to-read Like · comment Dec 09, 2015 Guido added it Like · comment Jun 16, 2016 Thomas marked it as to-read Like · comment Recommend This Book… . Reviews from People You Follow (2) Sep 26, 2008 Rod Hilton rated it it was amazing Shelves: programming, have-softcopy You’re wasting time reading this review, you could be reading this book instead.Release It! is one of the most important books I think programmers can read, easily as important as the oft-cited classics like The Pragmatic Programmer or the GoF book. Release It! isn’t about writing super-spiffy code, or object-oriented design, but it should drastically affect how professional programmers write their code. It focuses on what engineers need to do to get their software into a state where it can actually be deployed safely in a production environment. It covers patterns and antipatterns to support (or subvert) stability as well as capacity, and the section of the book covering this is simply excellent. But then it goes beyond that to also discuss Operational enablement. Even if you’re not into DevOps, and don’t want to really be involved in DevOps work, this book gives you the tools and tips to do what aspect of DevOps is the purview of pure developers.Nobody who writes production enterprise software should write another line of code until they read this book. I honestly can’t give it enough of a glowing endorsement. Like any other patterns book, a great deal of it will be familiar to people who have been in the industry for a while, and have come up with (or encountered) its principles on their own. But I guarantee, if there’s a single thing in the book you haven’t seen before, it’ll be worth reading the entire book, pretty much every section is gold.My only complaint about it is that Michael Nygard has a tendency to go on randomish tangents, especially when talking about “case studies,” which generally come off as the author trying too hard to convince the reader he knows what he’s talking about. A lot of these stories are about things he personally encountered in his career, and how he fixed them, and each one has a weird arrogant quality, it’s a little offputting to be honest, like Nygard is almost bragging. I get that these sections underscore the value of the ideas in the book, but there’s something about how they’re written that comes off boastful, or irritating in a way I can’t quite put into words. What’s more, the book STARTS with a particularly long one of these kinds of stories, making it kind of tough to get into the book. I actually tried to read it years ago and gave up on it very early. Only recently did I decide to revisit it and keep pushing forward (based on a co-worker’s recommendation) and I’m extremely glad I did.I highly, highly recommend picking up this book and reading it cover to cover. It’s a struggle at first due to the unfortunate decision to start it off with one of the most annoying sections of the book, but I implore you to power through it and keep reading. It’s worth it. (less) flag 13 likes · Like · comment · see review Sep 26, 2017 Rod Hilton rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: programming, favorites This remains one of the most important books software engineers can read. The second edition is even better than the first, updated to fix a lot of the “outdated” criticisms the first book gets, incorporating the modern DevOps movement, microservices, and modern technologies used in software engineering.I really just can’t say enough about this book. It’s required reading. If you’re responsible for code that runs on networked production systems, failing to read this book should be a fireable offense. Skipping “Release It!” is professional negligence. Stop what you’re doing and read this before shipping another line of code.Release It! is all about how to build cynical software, and once you start down that path you find that you can no longer think any other way. This book changes you and your career, it’s just phenomenal. Even if you think you know everything in it because the patterns and practices it describes have become widespread, it’s still worth reading.The second edition fixes - or at least somewhat improves - every minor complaint I had about the first edition, and reorganizes the information, adds a lot of great new sections, and removes outdated cruft. It’s superior to the first edition in every way, and that was a 5-star book for me. (less) flag 7 likes · Like · 1 comment · see review View 1 comment . Reader Q&A Ask the Goodreads community a question about Release It! ![[./resources/book-release-it-michael-nygard.resources/30721486.ux100_cr00100100.jpg]] Be the first to ask a question about Release It! . Lists with This Book DevOps Reading List 84 books — 117 voters Essential Programming Books 152 books — 449 voters More lists with this book… . Community Reviews Showing 1-30 4.21 · ![[./resources/book-release-it-michael-nygard.resources/embedded.1.svg]] Rating details · 2,136 ratings · 166 reviews ![[./resources/book-release-it-michael-nygard.resources/loading-45f04d682f1e9151cf1e6fb18a1bde21.gif]] Filter | Sort order . Apr 09, 2010 Tom Purl rated it it was amazing I need to start by saying that this is one of the best technical books I have ever read. To me, it’s easily as enjoyable and useful as Code Complete, The Pragmatic Programmer, or The Mythical Man Month. If you’re a sysadmin, an architect, or a developer that works with medium-to-large-sized systems, then do the following:1. Stop reading this post2. Order this book from your library or buy it from The Pragmatic Programmer’s web site3. Owe me a pint :DWhat The Book Is Really AboutActually, there i …more flag 13 likes · Like · 1 comment · see review Sep 26, 2008 Rod Hilton rated it it was amazing Shelves: programming, have-softcopy You’re wasting time reading this review, you could be reading this book instead.Release It! is one of the most important books I think programmers can read, easily as important as the oft-cited classics like The Pragmatic Programmer or the GoF book. Release It! isn’t about writing super-spiffy code, or object-oriented design, but it should drastically affect how professional programmers write their code. It focuses on what engineers need to do to get their software into a state where it can actu …more flag 13 likes · Like · comment · see review Sep 26, 2017 Rod Hilton rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: programming, favorites This remains one of the most important books software engineers can read. The second edition is even better than the first, updated to fix a lot of the “outdated” criticisms the first book gets, incorporating the modern DevOps movement, microservices, and modern technologies used in software engineering.I really just can’t say enough about this book. It’s required reading. If you’re responsible for code that runs on networked production systems, failing to read this book should be a fireable off …more flag 7 likes · Like · 1 comment · see review May 14, 2017 Michael Koltsov rated it it was amazing There’s a relatively short list of books I would like to keep on my desk. Most often those books are references and a composition of famous quotes. After I’ve read this chap I’d like to have it on my work desk at any moment.This book is a perfect mix of lots of useful technical insights, practices and recommendations got from the author’s hard-earned experience combined with some of the soft-skills you need to make your software and its maintenance (which as the author states costs more than the …more flag 4 likes · Like · comment · see review Sep 14, 2017 Alexander Yakushev rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: software-engineering A must-read for every software engineer who builds complex systems. flag 3 likes · Like · comment · see review Mar 01, 2017 Lino rated it liked it It’s on overview of how systems break in production and how to avoid it. The author manages to take a pretty dry subject and produce a book that is very easy to read.Now, it’s pretty dated in a few places. It’s from 2007, when the term DevOps wasn’t even widely used yet. At the same time it’s interesting to see how a lot of it still holds.There are too many references to JVM-speficic issues. I don’t think this ruins the experience for readers working outside the JVM, but it’s strange seeing cas …more flag 3 likes · Like · comment · see review Sep 30, 2011 Sergey Shishkin rated it it was amazing This book is a battle proven must read for any software engineer. Even after 7 years since the book has been published, pretty much every advice in it remains valid and relevant. The idea of the operations database has found market confirmation in products like Splunk. The Curcuit Breaker pattern has ever since been implemented numerous times in various OSS libraries.A seasoned developer would have probably been learned some of the advice the hard way. Nonetheless I’ve picked up a lot of wisdom …more flag 3 likes · Like · comment · see review Jan 01, 2015 Simon Eskildsen rated it it was amazing This book is an incredible introduction to creating and maintaining resilient web applications in realistic, chaotic environments. This book has changed how I approach development more than any other. Every developer with something in production should read it. flag 3 likes · Like · comment · see review Sep 29, 2018 Zbyszek Sokolowski rated it really liked it · review of another edition Shelves: programing, technical, software-architecture, performance, java Great book showing different aspects and clues of delivering software to production. Many software architects are “short sighted” and thinks about make a software which passes unit/integration tests and are failing shortly after release books describes such cases shows good approaches and different ways to deal with the problem and testing like chaos monkey.quotes:Armed with a thread dump, the application is an open book, if you know how to read it. You can deduce a great deal about applications …more flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Apr 03, 2014 Bill rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: dev-reading-list, tech-lead The original edition of this book introduced me to stability patterns and their evil twins, stability antipatterns. I’ve referenced its terminology countless times since reading it, especially Steady State, Circuit Breaker, and Fail Fast. I always include this on my list when newer developers ask what they should read. It’s chock full of wisdom about distributed systems that no one bothers to teach you in school. The techniques here make the difference between code that will topple over at the s …more flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Nov 03, 2015 James Healy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition This book radically influenced the way I build and deploy software.It’s a whirlwind tour through designing code that behaves well in production, the many ways interaction between multiple systems can fail, deployment styles that avoid scheduled downtime, and case studies to demonstrate the surprises that happen in the real world.For those new developing and deploying production software the pace might be hard to follow, but those with a bit of experience under their belt will find this triggers …more flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Nov 07, 2016 Sergey Teplyakov rated it really liked it I’ve been working on project that heavily used clouds and high availability for relatively short period of time but even that experience helped me to appreciate this book.The book predates all the dev-ops hype, but still gives you tons of suggestions how to build a robust, scalable and easy-to-understand-when-something-goes-wrong application: think about failure, every possible component WILL fail in production. Every possible ‘joint’ like external system interaction will be broken. Every possib …more flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Feb 24, 2019 Szymon rated it it was amazing · review of another edition Shelves: 2019, ebook, programming, devops, learning “Release It!” is a great book every software developer, architect, designer or even QA engineer should read. It focuses on principles and guidance so it may feel like it misses some level of details. However, if it focused more on the specific tools instead of principles, it would quickly become outdated. You won’t regret spending time with the book - it is 336 pages of useful and never outdating knowledge. Highly recommended!My full review can be found here: https://e.printstacktrace.blog/relea …more flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Aug 24, 2013 Roman Pichlík rated it really liked it Even almost seven years after publishing the book is a source of inspiration in designing production friendly software. I wish i could read the book three years ago. It would safe few sleepless nights to me and my colleagues. The book would deserve to being extend about e.g. Cloud, Software As A Service and even DevOps since they are key change drivers in release/deployment process nowadays. Anyway worth reading and thumbs up. flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Sep 02, 2014 Andreea Lucau rated it really liked it You can tell from the first use case the writer worked with big websites and using Java. Still, the book is full of useful advice on how to design software projects in terms in scalability, transparency, adaptability and ease of troubleshoot. I enjoyed the style - the examples are well chosen and the level of details is not to deep, just enough to explain why some decisions are better than the others and how to apply good judgement when needed. flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Aug 15, 2015 Aleksey rated it it was amazing Shelves: it, worth-re-read This book is a rare gem. It is full of valuable insights and is written in a very good language. Which makes this book not only valuable source of information but also a pleasure to read.I would set 10 starts rating out of 5 possible if I could.Definetely recommend it to any software developer or system engineer. flag 2 likes · Like · comment · see review Apr 18, 2019 Enzo Altamiranda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition A stellar career in software engineering with all its hard-earned lessons packed into a single, easy-to-digest book. Release It! Is an essentially practical book that stems from the author’s perceived lack of focus on developing software so that it runs in a production environments.What would these kind of systems with a focus for real-world use look like? He starts by outlining stability anti-patterns. These are bad practices often found in the design of systems which render it more fragile, a …more flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Apr 03, 2017 Mitchell rated it liked it Shelves: computer-science, nonfiction, own, liked-reviews This was a discussion book at my current company. As a starting point for conversation, it worked well enough. It definitely had some challenges. Writing a software related book almost implies specific technologies. But specifying these technologies almost immediately makes the book out of date, as in this one. But only dealing in concepts makes the book impenetrable. But just rambling your way through chapters just makes it annoying. This book was uneven, but it championed better logging and me …more flag 1 like · Like · 1 comment · see review Oct 02, 2017 Jelena K rated it it was amazing Shelves: safaribooks Perfect reading! Can’t wait for the updated version of this book. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Jul 17, 2009 Kristjan Wager rated it it was amazing Shelves: programming-and-systems-development If you are in the business of making software systems, odds are that you might have heard about Nygard’s book. People have raved about it since it was published in 2007.That being the case, it had been on my to-read list for a while, but without any urgency. Then I went a conference where I heard two sessions with Michael Nygard presenting his ideas. After that, I knew I had to get hold of the book straight away.Release It! is something as rare as a book which is groundbreaking while stating the …more flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Nov 30, 2012 Kevin rated it it was amazing This book is fantastic.Let’s be frank: I’m biased, because the author is a friend and colleague, and I know some of the stories he tells from personal experience (I’m even in one of them, anonymously).Nygard writes very well, taking complex concepts and breaking them down into their components, and leaving the reader with essential takeaways of the patterns that create problems and the patterns that can prevent them. The term is never used in this book, but the concept of DevOps underlies the …more flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review May 13, 2008 Mark rated it really liked it Shelves: programming I was pretty sure I’d like it when, early on, I came across the following quote:"…sites are now expected to be available 24 by 7 by 365." Footnote: “That phrase has always bothered me. As an engineer, I expect it to either be ‘24 by 365’ or ‘24 by 7 by 52.’“This book has a lot of good information on building web applications that can withstand very high load. It is well-written, and he does a very good job of explaining the reasons why different approaches are particularly good or bad.I have n …more flag 1 like · Like · 1 comment · see review Feb 11, 2012 Ivan rated it it was amazing Awesome! Must read for anyone who is(or wants to be) exposed to designing and running largely distributed(enterprisey) systems. In fact I’d recommend it to any engineer.The book has plenty of real life stories, as well as good suggestions on how problems could have been mitigated beforehand.Some of my takeaways:- Resource pools as a way contain failures within broken integration points(properly cooked: low contention, configurable, with timeouts and handling ’no free resource found’ case ‘schedu …more flag 1 like · Like · 1 comment · see review May 16, 2014 Sebastian Gebski rated it really liked it To be honest, I’ve got something different than expected. What I was looking for was another ‘Continuous Delivery’ - a book about modern practices of shortening the delivery cycle, filled with examples / cases / ideas.What this book is actually about is the overall quality of software products (looked at from very various perspectives) and how do different types of flaws impact the product / service in the end. As you can see, this is a far wider (& more generic) topic - if this is what you’ …more flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Jul 27, 2013 Michael Korbakov rated it it was amazing Shelves: developers-recomentations One of the most interesting books I read recently. Usually this kind of material is pretty boring to read, but Michael Nygard presented it in a smooth and sometimes even funny way. Content-wise, even a seasoned person with experience of running software systems in production will find something interesting. I believe that after reading this book plus “Continuous delivery” by Humble and Farley developer can feel really prepared for terrors of a live production environment.I really want to see a s …more flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review May 26, 2015 Borys rated it it was amazing Shelves: another_view, cs_practice, cs_theory, english, programming Very cool book! Totally. Awesome use cases (I wish there were more). This book will introduce you to another world where systems break, code goes awry, users are frustrated, SLAs violated : to the real world in short :)I think developers would benefit most from this book, because from my experience, we’re often too focused on getting code deployed and deal with problems that arise later, well, later. I think product managers and architects are more experienced in this area (I hope so!) and there …more flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Jun 19, 2014 Max rated it it was amazing Excellent overview of important concepts, if you’re planning on writing software that gets used by lots of people.Lots of Java examples, but they illustrate patterns and antipatterns that any programmer should be thinking about, regardless of the specific technology being used.I’m probably going to make a habit of skimming this book regularly throughout my software career. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Mar 11, 2016 Jens Rantil rated it it was amazing Shelves: computer-books, tink-office Required reading for every developer and ops person. Occasionally somewhat JVM-centric but for the most part generic enough to apply to most computer systems. I love that many chapters are split into patterns and anti-patterns. After 9 years of experience in the field of IT I recognized most patterns and anti-patterns and it made me happy to see someone had written them down! flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review May 01, 2015 Luca rated it really liked it Shelves: devops I thought I’d go for 5 stars while reading most of it. I ended up with four because I found last chapters to be a bit confusing. Anyway the book is full of wisdom and I would argue for calling it a must. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review Dec 05, 2016 Marcelo Boeira rated it it was ok It is not a bad book, however, it is quite outdated. The author focuses too much on java bytecode stories instead of the expected content. There are several good definitions, but they are hidden in between long and, most of the times, unnecessary stories. flag 1 like · Like · comment · see review « previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … next » . new topic Discuss This Book There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Be the first to start one » .

Backlinks