| OverviewSlow websites infuriate users. Lots of people can
visit your
web site or use your web application - but you have to be
prepared for
those visitors, or they won't come back. Your sites need to
be built to
withstand the problems success creates.
Building Scalable Web Sites looks at a
variety of techniques for creating sites that can keep
users cheerful even when there are thousands or millions of
them. Flickr.com developer, Cal Henderson, explains how to
build sites so that large numbers of visitors can enjoy
them. Henderson examines techniques that go beyond sheer
speed, exploring how to coordinate developers, support
international users,
and integrate with other services from email to SOAP to RSS
to the APIs exposed by many Ajax-based web
applications.
This book uncovers the secrets that you need to know for
back-end scaling, architecture and failover so your websites
can handle countless requests. You'll learn how to take the
"poor man's web technologies" - Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP
or other scripting languages - and scale them to compete
with established "store bought" enterprise web technologies.
Toward the end of the book, you'll discover techniques for
keeping web applications running with event monitoring and
long-term statistical tracking for capacity planning.
If you're about to build your first dynamic website, then
Building Scalable Web Sites isn't for
you. But if you're an advanced developer who's ready to
realize the cost and performance benefits of a comprehensive
approach to scalable applications, then let your fingers do
the walking through this convenient guide.
Editorial Reviews| Book Description | Slow websites infuriate users. Lots of people can visit your web site or use your web application - but you have to be prepared for those visitors, or they won't come back. Your sites need to be built to withstand the problems success creates. Building Scalable Web Sites looks at a variety of techniques for creating sites which can keep users cheerful even when there are thousands or millions of them. Flickr.com developer, Cal Henderson, explains how to build sites so that large numbers of visitors can enjoy them. Henderson examines techniques that go beyond sheer speed, exploring how to coordinate developers, support international users, and integrate with other services from email to SOAP to RSS to the APIs exposed by many Ajax-based web applications. This book uncovers the secrets that you need to know for back-end scaling, architecture and failover so your websites can handle countless requests. You'll learn how to take the "poor man's web technologies" - Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP or other scripting languages - and scale them to compete with established "store bought" enterprise web technologies. Toward the end of the book, you'll discover techniques for keeping web applications running with event monitoring and long-term statistical tracking for capacity planning. If you're about to build your first dynamic website, then Building Scalable Web Sites isn't for you. But if you're an advanced developer who's ready to realize the cost and performance benefits of a comprehensive approach to scalable applications, then let your fingers do the walking through this convenient guide. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') | Average Customer Rating: |  | based on 21 reviews. |
| Great book for building durable web applications, 2007-12-18 | | Reviewer rating: |  |
| | Despite its small page count this book both covers the basics for building a web application (i.e. how to pick a hosting service) and advanced topics such as cutting edge techniques for scaling out. Great as an introduction to building web applications and as a reference. |
| | Very good indeed, 2007-10-12 | | Reviewer rating: | |
| | Very good material, specially in the current world where people think that their out-of-the box Java application servers will do the job of serving tons of pages a day. |
| | Building web-scale applications, 2007-04-19 | | Reviewer rating: | |
| Given the complexity of addressing 'scalability', Cal Henderson has done an amazing job of producing 348 information packed pages that will keep you glued to the end. This book is a ground up overview of the construction, security, architecture, monitoring, and yes, even scaling processes. Rarely do I find technology books that are cover-to-cover material, but this one had me asking for more, chapter after chapter. Given the scope, some of the sections are brief, but they give you just enough to kick-start your research and fill in the blanks.
If you're wondering which tools the big players use, how they scale their databases, how they monitor their servers, or even how they go about their daily life - this book is worth every penny. |
| | Excellent, although written for the LAMP stack, 2007-03-27 | | Reviewer rating: | |
| I liked the scope and thoroughness of this book, although I wish it had a little more information about writing web applications for the Windows/IIS/SQL Server/C# approach (WISC?), rather than Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP).
Great chapter about internationalization, by the way. I've never seen a better description of UTF. |
| | A place to start and return often, 2007-01-03 | | Reviewer rating: | |
| | If you are a new web developer this is a survey course in what you need to know. Unfortunately if are a new web developer you probably won't get 3/4rs of what Henderson has to say. He doesn't really get into detail with any single topic in the book... leaving it to the reader to find more information later. None the less, no matter where you are on the learning curve, I consider this a vital part of any developer's library. Buy this tomb, read it in chunks if you're new and if not reread chapters at a time for inspiration of what you could be doing better. |
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