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System weaknesses go beyond your infrastructure, platforms, and applications to include policies, practices, playbooks, and people.

Author Russ Miles explains why, when, and how to test systems, processes, and team responses using simulated failures on Game Days. You'll also learn how to work toward continuous chaos through automation with features you can share across your team and organization.

As more companies move toward microservices and other distributed technologies, the complexity of these systems increases. You can't remove the complexity, but through Chaos Engineering you can discover vulnerabilities and prevent outages before they impact your customers.

This practical guide shows engineers how to navigate complex systems while optimizing to meet business goals.

Cloud native security isn't a game for individual players. It requires team collaboration with a platform that can help cloud security engineers, developers, and operations people do their best work. That's what the cloud native application protection platform (CNAPP) delivers. With this practical guide, you'll learn how CNAPPs can help you consolidate security through DevSecOps across cloud native technologies, practices, and application lifecycles.

We’ve spent over a decade now becoming more and more agile and adaptable in our ways of working.

Unfortunately our software is now struggling to keep up with the pace of innovation that is increasingly being demanded by modern businesses. It's time to sort that out. It's time for Antifragile Software

If you're planning, building, or implementing a cloud strategy that supports digitalization for your financial services business, this invaluable guide clearly sets out the crucial factors and questions to consider first. With it, you'll learn how to avoid the costly and time-consuming pitfalls and disappointments of cloud adoption and take full advantage of the cloud operational model.

You'll discover cloud tactics that unlock the benefits of digitalization and how to create a cloud strategy that has the flexibility to streamline operations, integrate channels, and encourage innovation in your firm.

If you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or security engineer struggling under a deluge of telemetry data, this report is for you. High-quality metrics, traces, and logs are all essential for observing and working with modern systems, but when they're applied to a complex cloud-based system the result can be a confusing mess.

This insightful report explains the promise of telemetry pipelines and shows you how to use pipeline tools to master the flood of telemetry data. Author Russ Miles dives into key concepts, provides real-world examples, and shows you how to build your own telemetry pipelines. By the end of this report, you'll understand how investing in telemetry pipelines lets you apply valuable business cases, such as compliance and cost management.

Chaos engineering is a highly collaborative activity. When applied well, virtually everyone is responsible for exploring, surfacing, overcoming, and validating weaknesses in their systems. That can lead to a lot of chaos engineering activity across a collection of systems at any moment in time.

How can you keep chaos engineering from becoming, well, too chaotic? One key technique is chaos observability.

In this book, Russ Miles demonstrates how to bring your chaos experiments into the world of system observability. Chaos observability enables you to surface, debug, and even visualize chaos experiment activities across your system in real time and through time series recordings. You’ll learn how chaos observability helps everyone in production be aware of chaos activities occurring within and across systems.

Software as a service (SaaS) is on the path to becoming the de facto model for building, delivering, and operating software solutions. Adopting a multi-tenant SaaS model requires builders to take on a broad range of new architecture, implementation, and operational challenges. How data is partitioned, how resources are isolated, how tenants are authenticated, how microservices are built—these are just a few of the many areas that need to be on your radar when you're designing and creating SaaS offerings.

This book provides an end-to-end view of the SaaS architectural landscape, outlining the practical techniques, strategies, and patterns that every architect must navigate as part of building a SaaS environment.

Even the best developers have seen well-intentioned software projects fail -- often because the customer kept changing requirements, and end users didn't know how to use the software you developed. Instead of surrendering to these common problems, let Head First Software Development guide you through the best practices of software development. Before you know it, those failed projects will be a thing of the past.

With its unique visually rich format, this book pulls together the hard lessons learned by expert software developers over the years. You'll gain essential information about each step of the software development lifecycle -- requirements, design, coding, testing, implementing, and maintenance -- and understand why and how different development processes work.