Release It! - New from the Pragmatic Programmers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
3/30/2007

Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
Designing Software to Survive

If you're a programmer, there's nothing worse then getting that call at
3AM. Your application crashed suddenly. Maybe it was a victim of its own
popularity. Or maybe it was a botnet attack. A reboot doesn't fix it, so
now it's up to you.

Whether it's in Java, .NET, or Ruby on Rails, getting your application
ready to ship is only half the battle. Did you design your system to
survive a sudden rush of visitors from Digg or Slashdot? Or an influx of
real world customers from 100 different countries? Are you ready for a
world filled with flakey networks, tangled databases, and impatient
users?

If you're a developer and don't want to be on call for the rest of your
life, this book will help.

In "Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software" (Pragmatic
Bookshelf, US$34.95, 0-9787392-1-3), Michael T. Nygard shows you how to
design and architect your application for the harsh realities it will
face. You'll learn how to design your application for maximum uptime,
performance, and return on investment.

Mike explains that many problems with systems today start with the
design:

"It's disconnected from the real world. It's the same as cars designed
solely in the cool comfort of the lab-they look great in models and CAD
systems, but don't work well in the real world. You want a car designed by
somebody who knows that oil changes are always 3,000 miles late; that the
tires must work just as well on the last sixteenth of an inch of tread as
on the first; and that you will certainly, at some point, stomp on the
brakes while you're holding an Egg McMuffin in one hand and a cell phone
in the other."

With a combination of case studies and practical advice, Patterns to
follow and Anti-Patterns to avoid, "Release It!" will help you manage the
pitfalls that cost companies huge amounts of time and money each year.

"Agile development emphasizes delivering production-ready code every
iteration. This book finally lays out exactly what this really means for
critical systems today. You have a winner here."
-Tom Poppendiec, Poppendieck, LLC

"It's brilliant. Absolutely awesome. This book would've saved [Really Big
Company] hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in a recent
release."
-Jared Richardson Agile Artisans, Inc.

Release It! Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
by Michael T. Nygard

ISBN 0-9787392-1-3, 368 pages, $34.95US, $45.95CA, softcover.

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