{"product_id":"architecting-for-massive-scale-building-globally-distributed-web-systems-9798183694017","title":"Architecting for Massive Scale: Building Globally Distributed Web Systems","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jean S. Deloach\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Cloud Computing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePicture this: It is 2:00 AM on the biggest launch day of your company's history. Marketing just sent an email to five million customers. You sit at your desk, watching the traffic metrics spike vertically by 5,000% in less than ten minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuddenly, the database latency graph turns a terrifying shade of red. The API Gateway starts throwing 500 Internal Server Errors. Customer support tickets are flooding in. Your CEO is calling you, demanding to know why the checkout page is completely frozen. Your system is violently tearing itself apart under the pressure, and because your application is a tangled web of unmonitored dependencies, you have absolutely no idea \u003ci\u003ewhere\u003c\/i\u003e the bottleneck is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have been in that exact seat. I have felt that visceral drop in my stomach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI wrote this book so you never have to feel it. I want to take you behind the curtain and show you exactly how elite engineering teams design systems that absorb massive, unpredictable traffic spikes without breaking a sweat. I will show you how to build bulkheads so a failure in one service doesn't sink the entire ship, and how to design your cloud infrastructure so that scaling up doesn't bankrupt your company. You are going to learn how to sleep soundly through the night while your architecture scales silently in the background.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat's inside\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book doesn't deal in theoretical fluff. 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