Configuration Management
The Turn of the Screwdriver
Runtime configuration, feature switches, and other adjustable hauntings
A configuration value is never more frightening than when everyone is sure it came from somewhere else.
In prose of exquisite uncertainty, Henry James examines the uneasy household of modern configuration: environment variables, dynamic settings, secret rotation, precedence rules, and the terrible ambiguity of defaults. This is a practical manual for engineers who would like production to be configurable, but not possessed.
Contents
- The Governess Discovers an Environment Variable
- Defaults Seen at the Edge of the Lawn
- Precedence, Inheritance, and Other Unreliable Witnesses
- Restarting Bly Without Waking the Children
Published by Austenpunk, the distinguished imprint for engineers who believe that every production incident would be improved by a stronger sense of narrative irony.
This essential volume combines literary feeling, technical anxiety, and just enough documentation to suggest that somebody once understood the system.
