Scalable Internet Architectures (Developer's Library Series)

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Author: Theo Schlossnagle

ISBN-10: 067232699X

ISBN-13: 9780672326998

Category: Network Design

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 Architectures 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,...

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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.

1Scaling up (and down)52Principles for avoiding failure113Mission-critical environments254High availability : ha! : no downtime?!375Load balancing and the utter confusion surrounding it616Static content serving for speed and glory757Static meets dynamic adding caches to reduce costs1058Distributed databases are easy, just read the fine print1379Juggling logs and other circus tricks16910The right tool for the job199App. ASpread227