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Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications |  | Author: Cal Henderson
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 0.8
ISBN: 0596102356
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
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Publication Date: May 16, 2006
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Product Description
Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly--without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, Building Scalable Web Sites offers techniques for creating fast sites that your visitors will find a pleasure to use.
Creating popular sites requires much more than fast hardware with lots of memory and hard drive space. It requires thinking about how to grow over time, how to make the same resources accessible to audiences with different expectations, and how to have a team of developers work on a site without creating new problems for visitors and for each other.
Presenting information to visitors from all over the world
Integrating email with your web applications
Planning hardware purchases and hosting options to have as much as you need without breaking your wallet
Partitioning and distributing databases to support large datasets and simultaneous transactions
Monitoring your applications to find and clear bottlenecks
* Providing services APIs and using services from other providers to increase your site's reach and capabilities
Whether you're starting a small web site with hopes of growing big or you already have a large system that needs maintenance, you'll find Building Scalable Web Sites to be a library of ideas for making things work.
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 More hardware than software February 10, 2010
Sardonicus
When I purchased this book I was looking for a resource that would give me some insights into architecting web applications, from the software side. While an interesting read and useful, it was mostly about the hardware scaling: servers and network. The software tips really boil down to 'once you have the hardware and network configuration figured out, write your application to use that', which is rather on the nose.
I was looking for a book with more wisdom on the software development side and was disappointed that it didn't really focus much on that part of building web sites. Despite it not being what I was looking for in particular, I'm giving it four stars because the information and presentation in the book were very useful.
 covers a lot of important things, just left out building web sites January 13, 2010
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
this book covers topics like version control software and network architecture, but it leaves out the actual building part. I was hoping this book would cover some examples of software architecture and how/why it's scalable.
Although this book touches on the mvc methodology, there is no connections made to how it makes an application scalable.
I feel a little cheated to be honest
 Good, overwhelming stuff November 30, 2009
User Guy
The book is getting a little dated, but most of what's in here still makes sense. I actually put it away after reading 50% of it because it keeps making me feel stressed about all the things I haven't done yet with my own web application. There really is a lot of truth to the Getting Real approach of not worrying about scaling before you actually need to.
I would have loved an abbreviated version of this book which might have told me the few things that are really worthwhile to start doing right from the beginning. Now I am mostly overwhelmed and may actually be more likely to ignore every concern listed in this book until just after it's too late.
Very Technical - Little Fluff Here March 24, 2009
Mark Ruzomberka (Philadelphia, PA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Typically when reading a technology book they fall into two categories.
They are over your head or too general. This book probably falls into the first category. I would imagine for the right techie this book would have so many great code examples they would love it. Had I bought this in the store, and not online, the sheer volume of code examples would have scared me away.
Not to worry, this book is great when paired with John Allspaw's "Art of Capacity Planning" John's book is 150 pages while this one is over 300, but they are a dense 300. If you want High Level go with Allspaw if you want Low Level go with Henderson. Also an FYI do not to copy all that code just use the 45 day trial to Safari to get access to the whole book online. This would allow you can download every word in the book, which is very slick.
For me, I did like the comparison in the opening chapter about how a web architect has to remodel a house while people are still living in it. Further along in the book Chapter 9 is worthwhile for the majority of readers even at a high level. Especially the 3 rules for scalability.
A scalable system has three simple characteristics:
They system can accommodate increased usage
The system can accommodate an increased data set
The system is maintainable
Communication is all about knowing your audience, and clearly I wasn't at a technical level for this book, but I still got a few great examples.
 nice book December 1, 2008
Yanhua Yu (fl usa)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I received this book in three days, which was a fast delivery. I am still working on this book, but I must say I like this book.
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