RockyCode

I recently read Release It! by Michael Nygard. I became interested in this book when the NFJS 2008 panel cited it as their #1 suggested read. In my view, the essence of Nygard's expose boils down to two points:

1. One can build software that passes QA with flying colors and still fails miserably in real environments.
2. Problem in production are unavoidable. Good software will be able to navigate them as gracefully as possible.

That said, the book was mostly conceptual, offering real-world examples of how antipatterns in software development made problems that were encountered even worse. Then ...