Release It!

IV · Distributed systems

Release It!

Michael Nygard · 2018 (2nd ed.) · 376 pp.

What it does

The original "stability patterns" book — circuit breaker, bulkhead, timeout, fail-fast. Each pattern grounded in a real outage Nygard witnessed.

Who should read it

Read before you write your next service. The chapter on production-readiness is a checklist worth making mandatory.

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