Preface
First of all, thank you for the feedback on the first edition. You will see that this second edition goes above and beyond the feedback. It actually has more new content than the existing content, enabling us to cover the topic deeper and wider.
The strongest feedback Packt Publishing and I got was to make it more pleasant to read as infrastructure is a dry topic. The topics we cover in the book are complex in nature, and the book goes deep into operationalizing performance and capacity management.
Another common feedback was to give more examples on the dashboards. You want more practical solution that you can implement. You want the book to guide you in your journey to operationalize your IaaS platform.
These two feedback plus other feedback and goals made the publisher and me took a fresh look on the topic. You will find the 2nd edition more complete, yet easier to read.
- In terms of ease of read, we have made the writing style more conversational. It should read less like a formal technical whitepaper and more like a spoken conversation among colleagues. We've also made the pictures clearer and added more diagrams to explain the topics better. We use more bullets and tables to improve the layout. We use shorter sentence, hence, we only use she instead of she/he in the book. It applies to both genders.
- In terms of completeness, you will find that the topics are expanded significantly. For example, the 2nd edition has five chapters on dashboards, compared with just one chapter on the 1st edition. Chapter wise, the book now has 15 chapters instead of 8 in the 1st edition.
