Early Draft, Version 0.15 -- October 1, 2006
Studying the architecture, design, implementation, and operations of a number of complex services has led me to some generalizations about design principles, architectural elements, operational processes, and organization structures which lead to the successful deploy quality services. The generalizations found in this document are based on the authors experience with a range of mission critical services for more than twenty five years, as well as interviews and papers about other complex services.
The following is very, very rough draft. Many of the sections are cut & pasted from notes I made to myself at one time or another. I would greatly appreciate questions, feedback, suggestions etc.
Which of what I scratch at in these notes has been well developed in the DevOps community. I should replaces my notes with links to appropriate resources.
A Good Foundation
Tackle Tough Manageability Issues
Build Operational Infrastructure
Develop Good Practices
Resources