# Books: Reliable Systems from Unreliable Parts

> Three free books on building systems that stay trustworthy when their parts fail: database access, event-driven design and AI agents.

- Books: 3
- Series: 1
- Source: https://muhammetsafak.com/books/
- Language: en-US
- Author: Muhammet Şafak

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## The Unreliable Systems Trilogy

Reliable systems are not built from reliable parts. They are built around the parts that fail.

- Three free books on one idea: reliable systems are not built from reliable parts but around the parts that fail — access, events and AI agents.
- https://muhammetsafak.com/books/series/the-unreliable-systems-trilogy/
- Markdown: https://muhammetsafak.com/books/series/the-unreliable-systems-trilogy.md

## All books

### The Production Database Access Guide

- Identities, credentials, just-in-time access, mediated execution and audit
- A practical guide to deciding who and what can reach a production database, how, for how long, and with what record left behind.
- The book's thesis: Not a credential-distribution problem — But an authorization, execution and accountability problem
- 329 pages
- Edition: 1st edition
- Editions: English, Türkçe, Español, Português
- Published 2026-10-06
- https://muhammetsafak.com/books/production-database-access-guide/
- Markdown: https://muhammetsafak.com/books/production-database-access-guide.md

### Designing Reliable Event-Driven Systems

- Messaging, retries, idempotency, outbox, ordering and schema evolution
- A practical guide to the patterns that keep event-driven systems correct when networks, brokers, deploys and people misbehave.
- The book's thesis: Not message brokers — But failure semantics
- 333 pages
- Edition: 1st edition
- Editions: English, Türkçe, Español, Português
- Published 2026-10-06
- https://muhammetsafak.com/books/designing-reliable-event-driven-systems/
- Markdown: https://muhammetsafak.com/books/designing-reliable-event-driven-systems.md

### Engineering Reliable AI Agents

- Tools, authority, state, bounds and records for agents in production
- A practical guide to building AI agents that can be trusted in production: tools, authority, state, bounds and records, from design to incident review.
- The book's thesis: Not trusting the model to be right — But making its mistakes survivable
- 487 pages
- Edition: 1st edition
- Editions: English, Türkçe, Español, Português
- Published 2026-10-06
- https://muhammetsafak.com/books/engineering-reliable-ai-agents/
- Markdown: https://muhammetsafak.com/books/engineering-reliable-ai-agents.md