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Book Description
"Feature complete" is not the same as "production ready."
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
survive a "Slashdotting"? Or an influx of real world customers from 100
different countries? If you're a developer and don't want to wear a pager
for the rest of your life, this book will help.

Enterprise Engineering shows you how to design and architect your
application for the harsh realities it will face. You can avoid the
pitfalls that cause typical enterprise applications to show uptime in the
"four eights" instead of the fabled "five nines." You'll learn how to
design your application for maximum uptime and performance.

Everything changes after Release 1.0. The consultants leave; key developers
get reassigned to new projects, and the wild and free environment of
development gets replaced by change review boards and defect reports. And
the public starts beating on the system. Your application needs to be ready
to live in that environment--without you.

Out in the real world, your system may have to endure the huge traffic
spikes of a Slashdot posting, or a sudden influx of international customers
in the middle of the night, or enjoy such popularity that you can't even
take it down for maintenance.

Other books on design and architecture only tell you how to meet functional
requirements. They help your software pass Quality Assurance. But painful
experience has shown that "feature complete" is not even close to
"production ready."

With a combination of case studies and practical advice, Enterprise
Engineering will help you avoid the pitfalls that cost companies hundreds
of thousands--sometimes millions--of dollars.

Synopsis
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 survive 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 at 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: "It's disconnected from the real world. It's the same as cars designed solely in the cool comfort of the lab - they look great in models and CAD systems, but don't work well in the real world.

You want a car designed by somebody who knows that oil changes are always 3,000 miles late; that the tires must work just as well on the last sixteenth of an inch of tread as on the first; and that you will certainly, at some point, stomp on the brakes while you're holding an Egg McMuffin in one hand and a cell phone in the other." With a combination of case studies and practical advice, Patterns to follow and Anti-Patterns to avoid, "Release It!" will help you manage the pitfalls that cost companies huge amounts of time and money each year.

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