The AI & Cloud Era series

Building modern software systems

How software is shaped, chosen, built, hardened and kept running: five free books that follow one company through all of it.

Free to read online · by Oleksiy Pylypenko

  1. Book 1

    Software Architecture

    The road to platform architecture

  2. Book 2

    Building Products

    Deciding what to build

  3. Book 3

    Building Software at Scale

    The system that builds the system

  4. Book 4

    Building Resilient Systems

    Production engineering

  5. Book 5

    Operating Production Systems

    Keeping systems running

One company, five questions

Encore sells concert tickets. In the books it grows from a handful of founders to four hundred engineers, survives on-sales of a million fans, builds a resale service and has its worst Friday. Every practice in the series is shown working, or failing, at that one company.