Target Audience

This book is for anyone who has ever built a web site and wondered how to make it scale to many thousands of users. The holy grail of performance and reliability need not be restricted to large companies with huge budgets; anyone can use this book to give their applications a severe kick in the pants!

It is also for people who are hoping to build the next great thing and want to be sure that whatever they build can cope with the eventual strain of countless users.