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Scalable Internet Architectures 1st Edition

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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 Architectures 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 Architectures.

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  1. ISBN-10
    067232699X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0672326998
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publication date
    July 21, 2006
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    7.05 x 0.8 x 8.95 inches
  7. Print length
    288 pages
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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.

About the Author

Theo Schlossnagle is a principal at OmniTI Computer Consulting, where he provides

expert consulting services related to scalable internet architectures, database replication,

and email infrastructure. He is the creator of the Backhand Project and the Ecelerity

MTA, and spends most of his time solving the scalability problems that arise in

high-performance and highly distributed systems.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sams Publishing; 1st edition (July 21, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 067232699X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0672326998
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.05 x 0.8 x 8.95 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 29 ratings

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Theo excels at developing elegant solutions to complicated problems as well as applying emerging technologies to solve everyday problems. As a hands-on executive of the company, he applies his experience and ingenuity to deliver innovative solutions to OmniTI clients.

A widely respected industry thought leader, Theo is the author of Scalable Internet Architectures (Sams) and has racked up more than one hundred speaking engagements at conferences worldwide. He was also the principal architect of the Momentum MTA, which is now the flagship product of OmniTI’s sister company, Message Systems. Born from Theo’s vision and technical wisdom, this innovation is transforming the email software spectrum.

Theo is a computer scientist in every respect. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in computer science with a focus on graphics and randomized algorithms in distributed systems, he went on to research resource allocation techniques in distributed systems during four years of post-graduate work. Theo is a member of the IEEE and a senior member of the ACM. He serves on the editoral board of the ACM’s Queue Magazine and on the ACM professions board.

In addition to being an engineer, Theo is a serial entrepreneur having founded several successful dot com startups including Message Systems, Fontdeck, and Circonus.

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Andrew Gilmartin
5.0 out of 5 stars Towards automatic, self-managed operations
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2009
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I bought this book on recommendations from others and I have to agree that it is fantastic. Don't let the 2006 publication date fool you into avoiding it for something more current. The advise given is based on real experience gained initially during the dot com era but it is as relevant today as then. The best part of the book is its advocacy and practical examples of the Spread group communications toolkit. Why solve a problem with a vendor's expensive high performance single point of failure solution when well knowledgeable use of internet infrastructure and peer to peer communication better solves it. Plus, you have a powerful tool to aid you moving further towards automatic, self-managed operations.
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Ryan Miller
4.0 out of 5 stars A Classic
Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2012
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This book is an absolute classic, with explanations full of solid principles and born of real-world pain. Other books in the category (even excellent ones like Allspaw's Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time) don't include nearly as much theory, all of which is well-explained. The book's weaknesses are that it focuses too narrowly on proprietary software rather than widely-available and widely-used open source equivalents (the examples may be tangential to the principles, but familiar examples always help) and that it doesn't deal sufficiently with Web 2.0-type environments where you have high write volumes of interconnected data.
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Ron C
5.0 out of 5 stars Scalable for sure...and Value for Money
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2013
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I ordered this book without even knowing how to pronounce the name of the author :D which is going to happen to you too! This is a gem of a book and if you ever buy this book - treat it like a novel. DO NOT sell it.
It has really good examples all over it and it is meant for the Cloud Computing enthusiasts. Not only systems people, the guys in the Networking field can reap benefits from this as well. I was lucky to get a killer deal for this book under 20 bucks and I don't think I will be selling it ever!

Good Luck!
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Jesus Muñoz
4.0 out of 5 stars Nice book, easy reading
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2008
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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.
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Greg Mullane
5.0 out of 5 stars High caliber technical book
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2009
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It's rare to find a technical book, albeit a computer one, that is well-written as this one. It hits a great sweet spot - not bogged down in abstract truisms, and not mired in boring, specific code examples. Instead, it draws upon the author's obvious extensive real-world experience to walk you through all the aspects and tradeoffs of scaleability. Highly recommended.
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Anupam Singhal
1.0 out of 5 stars Total Waste of time
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2008
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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".
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APe
3.0 out of 5 stars Too wordy, book for system/network administrator?
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2009
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I was disappointed in this book. Even if it does seem that it covers all the right things, in right order, trying not to miss anything -- down the road it came up clearly that this book is too wordy, too much pouring the water, discussing and explaining same things all over again. It did seem for me that it's a book mostly for system or network administrator, but it pretty useless for software architect. So, for me, the title of the book was misleading. I cannot say that it is useless for everybody, but it certainly was useless for me, and absolutely not the book I was expecting to see. Nevertheless, for the sake of truth I would like to say again that it does contain some interesting material.
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Julia
4.0 out of 5 stars Useful info
Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2009
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The author has clearly been through the Internet grinder and we're now all the better for it. Scalability of an Internet service should be one of the chief considerations in its design and he relates the strategies well. His experience definitely mirrors some of my own observations (and mistakes) in the past.
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Thomas Güttler
4.0 out of 5 stars Empfehlenswert
Reviewed in Germany on February 22, 2012
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Auch wenn das Buch inzwischen vor sieben Jahren erschienen ist, ist es trotzdem noch lesenswert. Es wird glasklar erklärt warum Hochverfügbarkeit und Loadbalancing zwei verschiedene Dinge sind: Das Konzept, dass ein Loadbalancer die Anfragen an N weitere Maschinen weiterreicht, ergibt im Endeffekt weniger Verfügbarkeit: Der Loadbalancer ist der Single-Point-Of-Failure. Ob die vorgestellte Bibliothek spread (spread.org) noch aktuell ist, ist fraglich. Das letzte Release ist mehr als zwei Jahre alt. Das Buch ist aber trotzdem gut.
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Nigel Pepper
5.0 out of 5 stars Sensible level, well presented, well written, practical...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 10, 2008
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As a software developer, one of my primary concerns is scalability of my applications. This book is perfect for an intermediate to experienced developer seeking a greater awareness and understanding of both the thought and tools to be cognizant of when building applications for the web which need to scale. The author goes on to give sensible, practical examples of software and hardware based approaches to scaling applications, making some important conceptual distinctions along the way.

I found this book an excellent technical read; delivered well considering the potential for ad nauseum of its subject matter.

Highly recommended for the competent web developer and those seeking to improve their awareness of scaling web technologies.
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Andy Spanswick
4.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read and very helpful
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 20, 2013
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I liked this book, but I have a feeling this book is aimed at people who need to learn about what a scaled architecture is. I work in the technical side of the business and implement a lot of these things daily, so this book is accurate but did not give me any Eureka moments.

That said, I read this book from cover to cover, it is a very - no - Extremely good book in terms of simple to follow and easy to read. The systems mentioned are current (not outdated) and the book covers all areas of scaled architecture.

I recommend this book, especially to anyone who has a rough idea or inkling of what a scaled architecture is, as this book will clarify 100% and fill any gaps.
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5.0 out of 5 stars wisdom from real life experience
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 13, 2011
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This is a rare book, written by someone who has obviously learned from the real work what works in theory and what works in practice.
Badly in need of a second edition as the world has moved on since 2006.
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