Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications | 
|  | | | Title: | Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications | | Author: | Cal Henderson | | Publisher: | O'Reilly Media, Inc. | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 16 May, 2006 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0596102356 / 9780596102357 | | List Price: | $39.99 | | You Save: | $13.60 | | Amazon Price: | $26.39 | |
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Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly--without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, "Building Scalable Web Sites" offers techniques for creating fast sites that your visitors will find a pleasure to use. Creating popular sites requires much more than fast hardware with lots of memory and hard drive space. It requires thinking about how to grow over time, how to make the same resources accessible to audiences with different expectations, and how to have a team of developers work on a site without creating new problems for visitors and for each other. Presenting information to visitors from all over the world * Integrating email with your web applications * Planning hardware purchases and hosting options to have as much as you need without breaking your wallet * Partitioning and distributing databases to support large datasets and simultaneous transactions * Monitoring your applications to find and clear bottlenecks * Providing services APIs and using services from other providers to increase your site's reach and capabilities Whether you're starting a small web site with hopes of growing big or you already have a large system that needs maintenance, you'll find "Building Scalable Web Sites" to be a library of ideas for making things work.
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• Great Book On Web Development, With At Least One Chapter All Software Developers Should Read! 28 July, 2008
When I first started reading this book I had certain expectations about the technical level of the content. I was expecting to have a lot of information about webservers, and load balancers, an d database clusters, and maybe software architecture.
I was pleasantly surprised as it covers all those things and more.
First as I've done in several of my reviews let me list the chapter titles.
1. Introduction
2. Web Application Architecture
3. Development Environments
4. i18n, l10n, and Unicode
5. Data Integrity and Security
6. Email
7. Remote Services
8. Bottlenecks
9. Scaling Web Applications
10. Statistics, Monitoring, and Alerting
11. APIs
I would recommend this book to any Web 1.0,2.0,3.0 startup trying to get ready to write their first line of code, well before that even.
Chapter three will be a review to many who read it, assuming they have good software engineering practices. Use revision control, use bug tracking, have a simple and repeatable build. This is really a good chapter which really applies to any kind of software you might write.
A general statement about this book, in numerous places where there are multiple options for tools to use, some free, some which cost real money, the author makes a list of the popular alternatives, gives pros and cons and a ball park for cost.
Chapter four, well if you don't know anything about internationalization (i18n), localization(l10n) and/or unicode, this chapter will resolve that problem. These efforts can introduce complexity into your system, and this chapter and frankly many place later in the book continue to point out the issues which can come up when dealing with not ascii characters.
Well I could write a chapter about each chapter, but then you wouldn't buy the book, which you should if you want to know about the topic.
I may even read it a second time.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AEWLAOHZMA57J
• Good If You're New And Growing Your First Large Scale Site 04 October, 2008
This book has many good sections, including some that actually touch
on the title of "scaling" web sites. However, most of the book
is oriented to a whole set of disjointed topics such as Unicode, MIME
email, and RSS, etc. Well written, but having nothing to do with
scalability.
The chapters that are on topic are generally good, but lacking in depth.
What it's missing is an overview of different techniques for scaling,
as well as different architectural models.
The entire book is fairly PHP centric. I would really have liked to have
seen more about tradeoffs and architectural details of what you should
do if you have Java, Javascript, AJAX, or Perl, or how to deal with
spreading your site over datacenters around the world.
"The Flickr Way" pretty much describes the book, since most of the
material seems to relate to doing things one way.
This book would be excellent if you have a single webserver that has
taken off and you're lost. If you already have a shelf of O'Reilly
books and a background in sysadmin or web development, much of the
material is redundant to other, more in depth manuals.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A15LJZ50HTQSHB
• This Was A Great Book! 23 November, 2008
This was a great book! I highly recommend it! Have fun!
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Merry Christmas!!!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1D5IBCOV9R6KX
• Upbeat And Informative 08 June, 2008
This is a practitioner's book. Very knowledgeable, very hands-on, systematic in an expert's way, through clearly hard-won experience. Fun and irreverent too. I recommend it highly.
So, what's my beef? It's not with the book. Hercules, Atlas, or Odysseus?
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1DD32LWOFIBAK
• Nice Book 01 December, 2008
I received this book in three days, which was a fast delivery. I am still working on this book, but I must say I like this book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A4TO3D1FDWTRE
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