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Working 24/7: Making Software Available at All Times

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Congratulations! JollyFarm is now a successful product, with farms and customers happy and healthy. This is really impressive, and you should be really proud. But now that the product is out there and people are relying on it, we need to think: What will we do if something goes bad? What if the database is unavailable? Or if a human error accidentally causes a big problem?

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Portella, L. (2023). Working 24/7: Making Software Available at All Times. In: A Friendly Guide to Software Development . Friendly Guides to Technology. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8969-3_11

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