Developing reliable, scalable distributed systems today is often more black art than science. Building these systems is complicated and, because few formally established patterns are available for designing them, most of these systems end up looking very unique. This practical guide shows you how to use existing software design patterns for designing and building reliable distributed applications.

Although patterns such as those developed more than 20 years ago by the Gang of Four were largely restricted to running on single machines, author Brendan Burns--a Partner Architect in Microsoft Azure--demonstrates how you can reuse several of them in modern distributed applications.

Systems engineers and application developers will learn how these patterns provide a common language and framework for dramatically increasing the quality of your system.

今天，开发可靠的、可扩展的分布式系统往往是黑色的艺术而不是科学。构建这些系统是很复杂的，而且，由于很少有正式建立的模式可以用来设计这些系统，所以大多数系统最终看起来都很独特。这本实用指南告诉你如何使用现有的软件设计模式来设计和构建可靠的分布式应用。

尽管诸如20多年前由四人帮开发的模式在很大程度上被限制在单机上运行，但作者Brendan Burns--微软Azure的合伙人架构师--展示了你如何在现代分布式应用中重用其中的几个模式。

系统工程师和应用程序开发人员将学习这些模式如何提供一个共同的语言和框架，以大幅提高系统的质量。