front matter

 

foreword

I’ve written dozens of forewords and prefaces over the years, but this might be the first time I’ve been annoyed having to write one. Why? I’m a sore loser! I am sore that I didn’t write this book. I am sore because I wonder if I even could write it.

This book is fantastic. Its pages are brimming with valuable ideas couched in evident, profound experience. I have always wanted to see all these concepts put in one place, and I will be pointing people to this book for the foreseeable future.

Building production-worthy applications, where production is mostly Kubernetes these days, and building out production itself? That’s a hefty lift, just like this book, which clocks in at more than 600 pages! But don’t let my prattling about size dissuade you from buying this book. It’s a big book for an even bigger topic.

This book covers the usual suspects: how to build services and microservices, how to handle persistence, messaging, instrumenting for observability, configuration, and security. In addition, there are whole chapters dedicated to some of these concepts.

preface

acknowledgments

about this book

Who should read this book?

How this book is organized: A road map

About the code

liveBook discussion forum

Other online resources

about the author

about the cover illustration