Without established design patterns to guide them, developers had to build distributed systems from the ground up, and many of these systems are truly idiosyncratic. Today, the increasing use of containers has paved the way for core distributed system models and reusable container components. This practical guide provides a collection of repeatable, common patterns to help make the development of reliable distributed systems much more accessible and efficient.Author Brendan Burns, Director of Engineering at Microsoft Azure, demonstrates how you can adapt existing software design patterns to design and build reliable distributed applications. Systems engineers and application developers will learn how these robust patterns provide a common language and framework to dramatically improve the quality of your system.