In Michael Nygard's one day Design and Deploy Production Ready Software course, you will learn how to create applications that survive the rigors of life in production. Too often, project teams aim to pass QA instead of aiming for success in production. Testing is not enough to prove that your software is ready for continuous availability in the corrosive environment of the Internet.

During this course, you will receive an understanding of the architecture and design patterns that can produce high availability in distributed, multithreaded systems such as those based on Java EE, .Net, or Ruby on Rails. You will also learn about the antipatterns that can sabotage your systems availability and capacity.

This course has been developed by Michael Nygard, author of "Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software."

Introducing Production-Ready Software

• Hostile, high-consequence environments
• The testability gap
• Recovery-oriented computing
• Focus on features
• The failure-oriented mindset

Stability

• Defining stability: What matters to your users?
• Failure modes: stability anti-patterns
• Architecting for stability: patterns

Capacity and scalability

• Relating performance, capacity, and scalability
• Myths about resources
• Failure modes: capacity anti-patterns
• Capacity improvements: patterns
• Architecting for scalability
• Getting extreme

Manageability

• Appreciating Operations
• Evolving interfaces
• Evolving schemas
• Handling configuration properties and configuration files
• Automating everything