Twice in one day I was pointed to The Mantra .. the vision , the good practices on how to run an infrastructure. And because I fully agree with this way of runing an infrastructure I`ll highlight some of them again .
- Design For Change , the google way.. everything will be different the next time you look around
- Be reproducable , you have to be able to survive the 10th floor test .. yes even when building stuff
- Design Redundancy upfront , don't try to squeeze it in later .. it will be more expensive and you will be less flexible
- ...
Dormando has some more reading material.
And when you are done reading Go watch the video of Randy Shoups presentation on Amazon's infrastructure, because also at Amazon we can find 4 repeatedly discussed points in the Architectural strategy
- Partition Everything
- Automate Everything
- Async Everything
- Prepare for Failure
It's a repeating theme , with variations based on your specific problem domain.. but the central toughts stay the same.
Automate Everything
Expect Failure
