In Building Resilient Distributed Systems, author Sam Newman offers a modern blueprint for surviving real-world system failures. The book combines wisdom from safety-critical systems with proven patterns, giving you a practical pathway to building more resilient AI-powered software that adapts and endures. Whether you're refining an existing system, creating new distributed systems, or simply striving to grasp the essence of resilience, you'll learn how to design systems that fail gracefully instead of collapsing.
By the end, you'll be able to:
Sam Newman is a technologist focusing primarily in the areas of distributed systems architecture and continuous delivery—three topics that seem to overlap frequently. He provides consulting, training, and advisory services to startups and large multinational enterprises alike, drawing on his more than 25 years in IT as a developer, sysadmin, and architect. He works with companies big and small all over the world, helping solve problems with technology. Sam is the author of the best-selling Building Microservices and Monolith to Microservices, both from O'Reilly, and an experienced conference speaker.