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Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications View Larger Image | Cal Henderson
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published May 2006, 348 pages, ISBN 0596102356 | List Price: $39.99
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Slow websites infuriate users. Lots of people can visit your web site or use
your web application - but you have to be prepared for those visitors, or they
won't come back. Your sites need to be built to withstand the problems success
creates.
Building Scalable Web Sites looks at a variety of techniques for creating
sites that can keep users cheerful, even when there are thousands or millions
of them. Flickr.com developer, Cal Henderson, explains how to build sites so
that large numbers of visitors can enjoy them. Henderson examines techniques
that go beyond sheer speed, exploring how to coordinate developers, support
international users, and integrate with other services from email to SOAP to
RSS to the APIs exposed by many Ajax-based web applications.
This book uncovers the secrets that you need to know for back-end scaling,
architecture, and failover so your web sites can handle countless requests.
You'll learn how to take the "poor man's web technologies", like Linux, Apache,
MySQL, PHP, or other scripting languages, and scale them to compete with established
"store bought" enterprise web technologies. Toward the end of the book, you'll
discover techniques for keeping web applications running with event monitoring
and long-term statistical tracking for capacity planning.
If you're about to build your first dynamic web site, then Building Scalable
Web Sites isn't for you. But if you're an advanced developer who's ready
to realize the cost and performance benefits of a comprehensive approach to
scalable applications, then let your fingers do the walking through this convenient
guide.
About the Author
Cal Henderson has been a web applications developer for far too long and should
really start looking for a serious job. Originally from England, he currently
works at Yahoo! Inc in Sunnyvale, California as the Engineering Manager for
the photo-sharing service Flickr. Before Flickr, he was the technical director
of Special Web Projects at emap, a UK media company. By night he works for a
whole slew of web sites and communities, including the creative community B3TA
and his personal site, iamcal. In his spare time, he writes windows software,
develops web publishing tools, and writes occasional articles about web application
development and security.
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