// bookshelf — 4 books

Books I keep coming back to.

Notes, not reviews: what each book changed about how I design, operate or explain systems. Linked into the graph like everything else.

Reading now · 1

reading now · 2021

Sam Newman

“Independent deployability is the test. If you can't deploy it alone, it isn't a microservice; it's a distributed monolith.”

Finished · 3

finished · 2016

Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, Niall Richard Murphy

“An SLO is a budget for failure. Alert on burning the budget, not on every symptom.”

finished · 2022

Yevgeniy Brikman

“State is the product. Protect it (remote, locked, versioned) before you write a second resource.”

finished · 2017

Martin Kleppmann

“Every storage engine is a trade-off between write amplification, read amplification and space; pick the one whose failure mode you can live with.”