Building Resilient Distributed Systems: Patterns and Practices for Stable Software
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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:
- Grasp the true essence of resilience by integrating safety and human factors
- Make use of patterns that improve system stability
- Translate resilience theories into practical actions
- Understand critical architectural trade-offs to ensure systems degrade gracefully
- Learn how distributed systems are fundamentally sociotechnical systems that sit at the intersection of people and technology
- Embrace the necessary cultural and behavioral shifts to support a resilient system
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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.