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The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems
Cloud system administration isn’t about sprinkling magic dust on servers and hoping for uptime. It’s a messy, relentless grind of designing, deploying, and babysitting sprawling networks that span continents. Thomas Limoncelli and his co-authors don’t sugarcoat it. They dig into the nitty-gritty of what it really takes to keep giant distributed systems running in the cloud era, where yesterday’s tricks barely cut it anymore.
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