SysAdmin & DevOps Books

Observability is critical for building, changing, and understanding the software that powers complex modern systems. Teams that adopt observability are much better equipped to ship code swiftly and confidently, identify outliers and aberrant behaviors, and understand the experience of each and every user. This practical book explains the value of o

Many organizations today have begun to modernize their Windows workloads to take full advantage of cloud economics. If you're a C# developer at one of these companies, you need options for rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring your existing .NET Framework applications. This practical book guides you through the process of converting your monoli

DevOps (short for development and operations), like most new approaches, is only a buzzword for many people. Everyone talks about it, but not everyone knows what it is. In broad terms, DevOps is an approach based on lean and agile principles in which business owners and the development, operations, and quality assurance departments collaborate to d

Data Mesh is a relatively new approach to data management. It combines several important trends in data management, including domain-driven design and data as a product, to decentralize the ownership of ingestion, processing, and serving of data. Zhamak Dehghani defined the term in 2019 as "a decentralized sociotechnical approach to share, access,

This is the third and final installment of the NGINX Cookbook. This book is about NGINX the web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. This installment focuses on deployment and operations of NGINX and NGINX Plus, the licensed version of the server. Throughout this installment the reader will learn about deploying NGINX to Amazon Web

This is the 2nd of three installments of NGINX Cookbook. This book is about NGINX the web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. This installment focuses on security aspects and features of NGINX and NGINX Plus, the licensed version of the NGINX server. Throughout this installment the reader will learn the basics of controlling acces

This is the first of three installments of NGINX Cookbook. This book is about NGINX the web server, reverse proxy, load balancer, and HTTP cache. This installment focuses mostly on the load balancing aspect and the advanced features around load balancing, as well as some information around HTTP caching. The book touches on NGINX Plus, the licensed

Many companies are busy collecting massive amounts of data, but few are taking advantage of this treasure horde to build a truly data insights-driven organization. To do so, the data team must democratize both data and the insights in a way that provides real-time access to all employees in the organization. This report explores DataOps, the proces

How can event streams help make your application more scalable, reliable, and maintainable? In this report, O'Reilly author Martin Kleppmann shows you how stream processing can make your data storage and processing systems more flexible and less complex. Structuring data as a stream of events isn't new, but with the advent of open source projects s

Imagine what you could do if scalability wasn't a problem. With this hands-on guide, you'll learn how the Cassandra database management system handles hundreds of terabytes of data while remaining highly available across multiple data centers. This third edition - updated for Cassandra 4.0 - provides the technical details and practical examples you