Design-build-run : applied practices and principles for production-ready software development / David Ingram.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ingram, David, 1968-

Series:

Wrox guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer software--Development.

Computer software.

Systems software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (722 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This unique and critical book shares no-fail secrets for building software and offers tried-and-true practices and principles for software design, development, and testing for mission-critical systems that must not fail. A veteran software architect walks you through the lifecycle of a project as well as each area of production readiness-functionality, availability, performance and scalability, operability, maintainability, and extensibility, and highlights their key concepts.

Contents:

Design - Build - Run: Applied Practices and Principles for Production-Ready Software Development; About the Author; Credits; Contents; Introduction; Whom This Book Is For; What This Book Covers; How This Book Is Structured; What You Need to Use This Book; Conventions; Source Code; Errata; p2p.wrox.com; Part I: Production-Ready Software; Chapter 1: "Production" Readiness; What Is Production Readiness?; Why Is Production Readiness Important?; The Production-Readiness "Process"; Summary; Chapter 2: The Quality Landscape; The Quality Characteristics; Why Quality (and Scope) Matter

Quality Comes at a PriceSummary; Chapter 3: Preparing for "Production"; Preparation Is Paramount; Development Mobilization; Build, Release, and Regular Integration Mobilization; Test Mobilization; Defect Management (and Fix) Mobilization; Configuration Management Mobilization; Change Control Mobilization; Summary; Chapter 4: The Ins and Outs of Construction; Thinking Out-of-the-Box; Considering the Design; The Analysis and Design Outputs; Summary; Part II: The Production Landscape; Chapter 5: The Production Environment; The Big Picture; The Hardware Topology; The Software Topology

The Primary and Secondary Data CentersSummary; Chapter 6: Activities and Environments; The Types of Testing; Testing in the "Production" Environments; Summary; Chapter 7: Service Delivery and Operations; The Three Levels of Live Service Support; The Operations Manual; Summary; Chapter 8: Monitoring and Alerts; What Is Monitoring?; What Is Monitored?; What Are Alerts?; Summary; Chapter 9: Reporting and Analytics; Reporting Overview; The Reporting Architecture; Technical Reporting; Analytics Overview; Summary; Chapter 10: Batch; Batch Processing; The Batch Scheduler; The Batch Run Date; Summary

Chapter 11: Incident InvestigationThe Investigation Roadmap; Typical Incidents; Summary; Chapter 12: Application Maintenance; The Application Maintenance Team; Application Maintenance Functions; The Developer's Guide; Summary; Part III: Case Study; Chapter 13: Conceptual Design; The Guiding Principles; Online Application Walkthrough; Defining the Requirements; Documenting the Use Cases; Summary; Chapter 14: Planning the Architecture; The Conceptual Architecture; The Presentation Tier; The Web Service Façade; The Business Processing Components; The Logical Data Model and Data Access

The Reporting ComponentsLogical Component Model; Summary; Chapter 15: Modeling the Application; Component Responsibility Modeling; Modeling the Batch Jobs; The Reporting Components; Summary; Part IV: Patterns and Practices; Chapter 16: Designing for Batch; The Batch Architecture; An Execution and Control Framework; Multiple Threads and Multiple Jobs; Generic Jobs and Generic Functionality; Summary; Chapter 17: Designing for Reporting; Maintaining Meaningful Data; Providing an Audit Trail; Summary; Chapter 18: Designing for Performance; Tuning the Database Layer; Tuning the "Application" Layer

Summary

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786612028144

9781282028142

1282028146

9780470482933

0470482931

OCLC:

476270672