{"product_id":"fuckup-almanac-volume-1-adam-korga-9783912499032","title":"Fuckup Almanac Volume 1: Foundations of the Digital World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Digital World is One Wrong Semicolon Away from Collapse.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost tech books are written by the winners. They celebrate \"best practices\" and \"clean code\" as if systems exist in a vacuum. But in the real world, systems are built by tired engineers, under impossible deadlines, managed by people with misaligned incentives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Fuckup Almanac: Volume I\u003c\/strong\u003e is not a celebration of success. It's a forensic audit of failure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom broken math and unreliable clocks to the comforting illusion of \"resilience,\" this book treats every outage, data leak, and systemic meltdown not as an embarrassment, but as evidence. It's a failure-first guide to how modern digital systems \u003cem\u003eactually\u003c\/em\u003e work-and why they inevitably break.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eInside this volume: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBetrayal by Logic: \u003c\/strong\u003e Why numbers, timekeeping, and fundamental math are the quietest saboteurs in your stack.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe Fragility of \"Up\" \u003c\/strong\u003e How the internet stays functional-until a single BGP update or a shovel-wielding scrap hunter proves otherwise.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eResilience Theater: \u003c\/strong\u003e Why your Disaster Recovery plan is often just a high-budget performance that fails the moment reality refuses to negotiate.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePost-Mortem Anatomy: \u003c\/strong\u003e How to look past the \"human error\" scapegoat and find the systemic rot that actually caused the spark.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this book avoids: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo \"Success Theater\" or motivational fluff.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo \"this would never happen today\" comfort lies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo simplified villains.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWho is this for?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEngineers, developers, and SREs who know failure is part of the job\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTechnologists tired of survivorship bias and success theater\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCurious readers who want to understand the digital world they rely on\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone who suspects complexity hides more than it explains\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStop reading about how things \u003cem\u003eshould\u003c\/em\u003e work. Start understanding why they don't.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Korga\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3912499039\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783912499032\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Quackfoundry Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 490\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.25d","brand":"Adam Korga","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48437693153535,"sku":"9783912499032","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_63313fa7-509e-4a30-bc4e-6c6822408312.jpg?v=1777163450","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fuckup-almanac-volume-1-adam-korga-9783912499032","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}