Scalable Internet Architectures
內容描述
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
Architecture 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 Architecture.
Table of
Contents
Contents at a
Glance
Introduction
1 Scaling
Up (and Down)
5
2
Principles for Avoiding Failure
11
3
Mission-Critical Environments
25
4 High
Availability.
HA! No Downtime?!
37
5 Load
Balancing
and the Utter Confusion Surrounding
It
61
6 Static
Content
Serving
for Speed and Glory
75
7 Static
Meets
Dynamic
Adding Caches to Reduce
Costs
105
8
Distributed Databases Are Easy, Just Read the
Fine
Print
137
9 Juggling
Logs
and Other Circus
Tricks
169
10 The Right Tool for
the Job
199
A
Spread
227
Index
247