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Building Secure and Reliable Systems: Best Practices for Designing, Implementing, and Maintaining Systems
Security and reliability aren’t just buzzwords slapped on a system’s specs. They’re two sides of the same coin, tangled so tightly that ignoring one dooms the other. Heather Adkins and her Google cohorts don’t sugarcoat it: if your system isn’t secure, it won’t be reliable. And if it’s not reliable, forget about being secure. This book is a no-nonsense, deep dive into what it really takes to build systems that don’t just work, but survive and defend in the wild chaos of the internet.
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