Design - Build - Run: Applied Practices and Principles for Production Ready Software Development

This unique and critical book shares no-fail secrets for building software and offers tried-and-true practices and principles for software design, development, and testing for mission-critical systems that must not fail. A veteran software architect walks you through the lifecycle of a project as well as each area of production readiness—functionality, availability, performance and scalability, operability, maintainability, and extensibility, and highlights their key concepts.

Design - Build - Run

Applied Practices and Principles for Production-Ready Software Development

What is the secret to successful software development? Veteran software architect Dave Ingram believes that a true success story is a project that delivers a system with all the required functionality, on time and within budget. In this book, Ingram shares his secrets to building software that must not fail and he explains why everything developers do during the process of software development impacts the overall outcome of a project.

Serving as a guide to designing and building production-ready software from the start, this book examines the entire process and the tools needed to develop and test applications. You''ll look at the environments and circumstances in which a system could be used and how to make certain that it''s fit for these purposes. Most importantly, the book covers the practices and patterns you can leverage during design and development to improve software quality, lower the total cost of ownership, and ensure that it is truly production-ready. With a thorough understanding of what is involved in designing, building, and running large-scale software systems, you''ll enhance your skills for building successful solutions.

What you will learn from this book

• What production-readiness means and all the quality characteristics that software needs to meet

• Key patterns and practices that ensure systems are designed and built to be production-ready and meet required standards and practices

• How to design for resilience, batch, performance, monitoring, incident investigation, reporting, application maintenance, testing, and deployment

• The pros and cons of using various tools and technologies and how to use them effectively

• Techniques for reviewing and testing a prototype

• Ways to plan the logical architecture and model the application

Who this book is for

This book is for software developers of all levels—from programmers through to software architects—who are interested in learning all aspects related to building production-ready systems. Familiarity with software designs and development practices is essential.

Wrox guides are crafted to make learning programming languages and technologies easier than you think. Written by programmers for programmers, they provide a structured, tutorial format that will guide you through all the techniques involved.