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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 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, 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 Architectures.

Table of Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. About the Author
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. We Want to Hear from You!
  6. Reader Services
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Scaling Up (and Down)
  9. 2. Principles for Avoiding Failure
  10. 3. Mission-Critical Environments
  11. 4. High Availability. HA! No Downtime?!
  12. 5. Load Balancing and the Utter Confusion Surrounding It
  13. 6. Static Content Serving for Speed and Glory
  14. 7. Static Meets Dynamic Adding Caches to Reduce Costs
  15. 8. Distributed Databases Are Easy, Just Read the Fine Print
  16. 9. Juggling Logs and Other Circus Tricks
  17. 10. The Right Tool for the Job
  18. A. Appendix
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