Modern software architecture makes finding what is going wrong more complex than ever before. in his book ‘Practical Monitoring’ Mike offers good advice on how to find and diagnose faults, failures and errors. Monitoring anti-patterns Tool obsession – think about the mission and goal, rather than the tool or approach Monitoring is a job – […]
Tag Archives: software
February
12
What you could learn from ‘Practical Monitoring’ by Mike Julian (2017, 137 pages)
posted by Max
June
04
What you could learn from ‘Accelerate’ by Forsgren, Humble & Kim (2018, 200 pages)
posted by Max
There is a lot of opinion in the software development industry about what works. Even though some of the insights are the result of decades of hard-won experience, humans are highly biased and context-dependent – we often think what works in one situation will keep on working, or will work great in an altogether different […]
November
17
What you could learn from ‘How Google Tests Software’ by James Whittaker (2012, 235 pages)
posted by Max
Google is one of the companies that are building and maintaining software at scale. While many of Google’s applications are not life-critical, the world certainly notices any disruption. These disruptions are surprisingly rare, given the number of products, the quantity of code and the sheer number of developers.
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