Designing FineGrained Systems
by Sam Newman
Recommended by Mark Russinovich
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Programming, Technology, and Nonfiction.
Distributed systems have become more finegrained in the past 10 years, shifting from codeheavy monolithic applications to smaller, selfcontained microservices. But developing these systems brings its own set of headaches. With lots of examples and practical advice, this book takes a holistic view of the topics that system architects and administ...
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