| OverviewAs 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. Editorial ReviewsProduct DescriptionAs 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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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 14 reviews. A worthwhile read, a disappointing experience, 2009-03-31 Reviewer rating: First and foremost, chapter 10 should be an Appendix. This was a horrible ending to what seemed to be a promising discussion on horizontal scaling for any system/network engineer or astute systems engineer.
Clear and concise, then incoherent and grammatically challenged, this book requires constant read backs leaving the reader with a sense of a diminished level of reading comprehension.
Fortunately there are some very good real world discussions on horizontal scaling, distributed caching, and eliminating single points of failure in your design.
Unfortunately the book was a long documentary on the author's Spread utility/program/solution and the last chapter is dedicated to writing a module for Spread. Completely out of band with regards to actual high performance clustered environments where the author's solution is likely scarce in popularity.
I do appreciate his coverage of logging. Despite my rating, I don't regret the first nine chapters. | Useful info, 2009-03-12 Reviewer rating: The author has clearly been through the Internet grinder and we're now all the better for it. Scalability of an Internet service should be one of the chief considerations in its design and he relates the strategies well. His experience definitely mirrors some of my own observations (and mistakes) in the past. | Too wordy, book for system/network administrator?, 2009-03-10 Reviewer rating: I was disappointed in this book. Even if it does seem that it covers all the right things, in right order, trying not to miss anything -- down the road it came up clearly that this book is too wordy, too much pouring the water, discussing and explaining same things all over again. It did seem for me that it's a book mostly for system or network administrator, but it pretty useless for software architect. So, for me, the title of the book was misleading. I cannot say that it is useless for everybody, but it certainly was useless for me, and absolutely not the book I was expecting to see. Nevertheless, for the sake of truth I would like to say again that it does contain some interesting material. | High caliber technical book, 2009-02-02 Reviewer rating: It's rare to find a technical book, albeit a computer one, that is well-written as this one. It hits a great sweet spot - not bogged down in abstract truisms, and not mired in boring, specific code examples. Instead, it draws upon the author's obvious extensive real-world experience to walk you through all the aspects and tradeoffs of scaleability. Highly recommended. | Total Waste of time, 2008-07-10 Reviewer rating: 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". |
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