Steve Vinoski reviews Mike Nygard’s book, Release It! saying:

The book is a patterns book, but the patterns it presents are concrete. First, there are patterns and anti-patterns for stability and capacity, intermixed with war stories about real-life large-scale systems that failed hard for reasons that wouldn’t ever occur at smaller scales. Nygard’s war stories bring the patterns and anti-patterns into focus, providing very real reasons for their existence, and hard-won proof that they do indeed work.

Steve also wrote directly to say, “In short, it’s a wonderful book. I think it’s my favorite for 2007.”

High praise indeed! Thanks, Steve, we’ll keep ‘em coming.