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| Author: Cal Henderson
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $39.99
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 5822
Format: Illustrated
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 348
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0596102356
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.72
EAN: 9780596102357
ASIN: 0596102356
Publication Date: May 16, 2006
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Condition: brand new. even never glanced into the book. shipping from Boston, MA
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great book for building durable web applications December 18, 2007
Despite its small page count this book both covers the basics for building a web application (i.e. how to pick a hosting service) and advanced topics such as cutting edge techniques for scaling out. Great as an introduction to building web applications and as a reference.
Very good indeed October 12, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very good material, specially in the current world where people think that their out-of-the box Java application servers will do the job of serving tons of pages a day.
Building web-scale applications April 18, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Given the complexity of addressing 'scalability', Cal Henderson has done an amazing job of producing 348 information packed pages that will keep you glued to the end. This book is a ground up overview of the construction, security, architecture, monitoring, and yes, even scaling processes. Rarely do I find technology books that are cover-to-cover material, but this one had me asking for more, chapter after chapter. Given the scope, some of the sections are brief, but they give you just enough to kick-start your research and fill in the blanks.
If you're wondering which tools the big players use, how they scale their databases, how they monitor their servers, or even how they go about their daily life - this book is worth every penny.
Excellent, although written for the LAMP stack March 26, 2007
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
I liked the scope and thoroughness of this book, although I wish it had a little more information about writing web applications for the Windows/IIS/SQL Server/C# approach (WISC?), rather than Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP).
Great chapter about internationalization, by the way. I've never seen a better description of UTF.
A place to start and return often January 3, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are a new web developer this is a survey course in what you need to know. Unfortunately if are a new web developer you probably won't get 3/4rs of what Henderson has to say. He doesn't really get into detail with any single topic in the book... leaving it to the reader to find more information later. None the less, no matter where you are on the learning curve, I consider this a vital part of any developer's library. Buy this tomb, read it in chunks if you're new and if not reread chapters at a time for inspiration of what you could be doing better.
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