大型软件系统生命周期的绝大部分都处于“使用”阶段，而非“设计”或“实现”阶段。那么为什么我们却总是认为软件工程应该首要关注设计和实现呢？在《SRE：Google运维解密》中，Google SRE的关键成员解释了他们是如何对软件进行生命周期的整体性关注的，以及为什么这样做能够帮助Google成功地构建、部署、监控和运维世界上现存最大的软件系统。通过阅读《SRE：Google运维解密》，读者可以学习到Google工程师在提高系统部署规模、改进可靠性和资源利用效率方面的指导思想与具体实践——这些都是可以立即直接应用的宝贵经验。 任何一个想要创建、扩展大规模集成系统的人都应该阅读《SRE：Google运维解密》。《SRE：Google运维解密》针对如何构建一个可长期维护的系统提供了非常宝贵的实践经验。

Silicon Valley legend Peter Thiel’s vision for building the companies of the future. In Spring 2012, students at Stanford University packed a lecture hall to hear Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel teach a course called “Computer Science 183: Startup.” Thiel told the class everything he knows about starting a company, going beyond the basics of running a business to answer the much harder question of how to find value where other people do not see it. Now Thiel and former student Blake Masters, whose notes on the class became an internet sensation, have revised, updated, and expanded on the best parts of the lectures. The result is this unique book: simultaneously an insider’s view of Silicon Valley, a practical guide for thinking about business, and a contrarian vision of the future. Thiel starts from the bold premise that we live in an age of technological stagnation, even if we’re too distracted by our new mobile devices to notice. Progress has stalled in every industry except computers, and globalization is hardly the revolution people think it is. It’s true that the world can get marginally richer by building new copies of old inventions, making horizontal progress from “1 to ” But true innovators have nothing to copy. The most valuable companies of the future will make vertical progress from “0 to 1,” creating entirely new industries and products that have never existed before. is about how to build these companies. Tomorrow’s champions will not win by competing ruthlessly in today’s marketplace. They will escape competition altogether, because their businesses will be unique. In today’s post-internet bubble world, conventional wisdom dictates that all the good ideas are taken, and the economy becomes a tournament in which everyone competes to reach the top. shows how to quit the zero-sum tournament by finding an untapped market, creating a new product, and quickly scaling up a monopoly business that captures lasting value. Planning an escape from competition is essential for every business and every individual, not just for technology startups. The greatest secret of the modern era is that there are still unique frontiers to explore and new problems to solve. shows how to pursue them using the most important, most difficult, and most underrated skill in every job or industry: thinking for yourself. --

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