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The Resilient Network: System-Level Design for High Availability and Correctness
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Publisher Price: $59.99
Publisher: Apress
Published: Apr 19 2027
Language: English
This book reframes how modern systems are designed, operated, and evaluated in an era defined by cloud computing, microservices, and global connectivity. Rather than treating outages as rare exceptions, this book embraces failure as an inevitable condition and argues for a shift from traditional notions of reliability toward true systemic resilience--systems that remain correct, available, and secure even under extreme stress.
Drawing on deep experience with high-performance networking platforms and silicon, the book bridges software architecture and physical network design to explain how resilience emerges across layers. It begins with foundational concepts such as failure domains, fault taxonomies, and the CAP theorem, then moves into the mechanics of correctness in distributed systems, including consensus algorithms like Paxos and Raft. Readers explore replication, distributed transactions, and global state management, alongside practical architectures for high availability and fast recovery. Beyond theory, this book integrates observability, chaos engineering, and formal verification with TLA+ to prove system behavior before failures occur. Chapters on security, scalability, cloud-native patterns, and distributed storage show how resilience intersects with performance, governance, and compliance. Forward-looking discussions on AIOps, edge computing, 6G swarm networking, and post-quantum cryptography prepare architects for the next decade of infrastructure challenges, reinforced by forensic analyses of real global outages.
In the end, this book equips architects and senior engineers with enduring principles rather than tool-specific recipes. By combining mathematical rigor with real-world lessons, it provides the mental models and architectural blueprints needed to build autonomous, self-healing systems that are inherently adaptable, correct, and resilient by design.
What you will learn:
- Classify and defend against crash-stop, timing, and Byzantine failures using proven failure models.
- Understand distributed consensus and data replication from both mathematical and systems perspectives.
- Apply chaos engineering safely in production to validate resilience and disaster recovery assumptions.
- Future-proof systems with cloud-native scaling, Zero Trust security, and autonomous AIOps strategies.
Who this book is for:
Software and Systems Architects, Technical Leadership and CTOs, Security, Risk, and Compliance Experts, DevOps Professionals
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