Without established design patterns to guide them developers have had to build distributed
systems from scratch and most of these systems are very unique indeed. Today the increasing
use of containers has paved the way for core distributed system patterns and reusable
containerized components. This practical guide presents a collection of repeatable generic
patterns to help make the development of reliable distributed systems far more approachable and
efficient. Author Brendan Burns—Director of Engineering at Microsoft Azure—demonstrates how you
can adapt existing software design patterns for designing and building reliable distributed
applications. Systems engineers and application developers will learn how these
long-established patterns provide a common language and framework for dramatically increasing
the quality of your system. Understand how patterns and reusable components enable the rapid
development of reliable distributed systems Use the side-car adapter and ambassador patterns
to split your application into a group of containers on a single machine Explore loosely
coupled multi-node distributed patterns for replication scaling and communication between the
components Learn distributed system patterns for large-scale batch data processing covering
work-queues event-based processing and coordinated workflows
