As a developer, you are aware of the increasing concern amongst developers and site architects that websites be able to handle the vast number of visitors that flood the Internet on a daily basis. Scalable Internet Architecture addresses these concerns by teaching you both good and bad design methodologies for building new sites and how to scale existing websites to robust, high-availability websites. Primarily example-based, the book discusses major topics in web architectural design, presenting existing solutions and how they work. Technology budget tight? This book will work for you, too, as it introduces new and innovative concepts to solving traditionally expensive problems without a large technology budget. Using open source and proprietary examples, you will be engaged in best practice design methodologies for building new sites, as well as appropriately scaling both growing and shrinking sites. Website development help has arrived in the form of Scalable Internet Architecture.
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Rating: - Total Waste of time
This book is full of rambling thoughts with no cohesive structure. And the material is not useful. The one takeway from the book is that asynchronous systems scale much better than synchronous systems, and the Spread toolkit can help with this in many situations. Avoid this and get the Cal Henderson book "Building Scalable Web Sites".
Rating: - Nice book, easy reading
This book is great, you can read it in different order depending in the term you are interested, it is easy for the lecture, it recommends you some best practices and also it questions the way the things are done and why somethings are good for a specific case and not the best for others.
Rating: - I could not put this book down
I picked up this book the other day on the recommendation of a friend, and I can't put it down. I like it because:
* its small (the number of pages 225, the print, the format, the thickness) , but its pithy. Every page has useful stuff.
* the real world experience (pain!) just oozes out of this book. So many times while reading I thought: "Oh yes ... hadn't thought of that."
* its not stridently opensource, nonetheless ends up most there anyway - but only after ... Read More
Rating: - Great Gift
I got this for my son as a gift...he loves it and as usual Amazon comes through with the best service!
Rating: - Unique and realistic perspective on Scalability and HA
This is the type of technical book that comes alone all to infrequently. Instead of giving "cookbook" recipes that are inapplicable to the majority of real-world environment, this book discusses how to apply techniques (not recipes) to increase the flexibility (and hence scalability) of your infrastructure. This author obviously has in-depth knowledge of real-work production environments and the unnecessary risks that companies expose their infrastructures to. For example, from my own experience ... Read More
- Total Waste of time
- I could not put this book down
