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Scalable Internet Architectures (Developer's Library)
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by Theo Schlossnagle
Sales Rank: 30100
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Discount: 37 %
$28.34
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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Sams July 31, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 067232699X
ISBN-13: 978-0672326998
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
Book Description
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.
About The Author
Theo Schlossnagle is a principal at OmniTI Computer Consulting, where he provides expert consulting services related to scalable internet architectures, database replication, and email infrastructure. He is the creator of the Backhand Project and the Ecelerity MTA, and spends most of his time solving the scalability problems that arise in high-performance and highly distributed systems.
Customer Reviews & Comments
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 it is pitiful how rampant the concept of HA is confused with load balancing! I have seen CIOs of Fortune 500 companies tout their "risk-free" scalable environment implemented with load balancing. When I explain to them that HA has nothing to do with load balancing, and to insure a high availability infrastructure they need to revamp their architecture, they look at me suspiciously as if I'm trying to squeeze money out of them. When I ask to speak to the Director of Operations and pointedly ask how HA is implemented, and get a response alone the lines of "we have redundant load balancers fronting redundant servers" I know I'm dealing with yet another instance of a gross misunderstanding of HA. When I point out the multiple single points of failure, I'm treated as an adversary intent on discrediting the technical staff! This book reveals the fallacy of such an approach. The author also discusses elements of a robust HA environment that others book only touch on if not completely ignore. For example, revision control and business continuity among other often overlooked processes. All in all an interesting read that will open your eyes to what is truly a misunderstood topic. The books handling of scalability, including a discussion of "scaling-down" (or scaling back), is first rate as well.
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