Scalable Internet Architectures
5October 20, 2009 by Atila
Product 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 a… More >>
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Reading this book was the worst experience.
Material in the book looks like collection of random notes.
Some of the topics like Load Balancing, High Availability not cover true details of the topic.
Overall, not a good book.
Rating: 1 / 5
I can summarize this book:
* High availabililty and load balancing are as completely different as peanut butter and jelly.
* Spread is cool.
* Look, ma! I can write complex code in multiple languages!
Overall, however, I liked the book. It was all new material to me, and I’m
glad I read it.
Rating: 4 / 5
I got this for my son as a gift…he loves it and as usual Amazon comes through with the best service!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is full of rambling thoughts with no cohesive structure. And the material is not useful. The one takeway from the book is that asynchronous systems scale much better than synchronous systems, and the Spread toolkit can help with this in many situations. Avoid this and get the Cal Henderson book “Building Scalable Web Sites”.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book is great, you can read it in different order depending in the term you are interested, it is easy for the lecture, it recommends you some best practices and also it questions the way the things are done and why somethings are good for a specific case and not the best for others.
Rating: 4 / 5