Book description
Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly--without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, Building Scalable Web Sites offers techniques for creating fast sites that your visitors will find a pleasure to use.
Creating popular sites requires much more than fast hardware with lots of memory and hard drive space. It requires thinking about how to grow over time, how to make the same resources accessible to audiences with different expectations, and how to have a team of developers work on a site without creating new problems for visitors and for each other.
Presenting information to visitors from all over the world
Integrating email with your web applications
Planning hardware purchases and hosting options to have as much as you need without breaking your wallet
Partitioning and distributing databases to support large datasets and simultaneous transactions
Monitoring your applications to find and clear bottlenecks
* Providing services APIs and using services from other providers to increase your site's reach and capabilities
Whether you're starting a small web site with hopes of growing big or you already have a large system that needs maintenance, you'll find Building Scalable Web Sites to be a library of ideas for making things work.
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Table of contents
- A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Web Application Architecture
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3. Development Environments
- 3.1. The Three Rules
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3.2. Use Source Control
- 3.2.1. What Is Source Control?
- 3.2.2. Utilities—the “Nice to Haves”
- 3.2.3. Source-Control Products
- 3.2.4. The Revision Control System (RCS)
- 3.2.5. What to Put in Source Control
- 3.2.6. What Not to Put in Source Control
- 3.3. One-Step Build
- 3.4. Issue Tracking
- 3.5. Scaling the Development Model
- 3.6. Coding Standards
- 3.7. Testing
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4. i18n, L10n, and Unicode
- 4.1. Internationalization and Localization
- 4.2. Unicode in a Nutshell
- 4.3. Unicode Encodings
- 4.4. The UTF-8 Encoding
- 4.5. UTF-8 Web Applications
- 4.6. Using UTF-8 with PHP
- 4.7. Using UTF-8 with Other Languages
- 4.8. Using UTF-8 with MySQL
- 4.9. Using UTF-8 with Email
- 4.10. Using UTF-8 with JavaScript
- 4.11. Using UTF-8 with APIs
- 5. Data Integrity and Security
- 6. Email
- 7. Remote Services
- 8. Bottlenecks
- 9. Scaling Web Applications
- 10. Statistics, Monitoring, and Alerting
- 11. APIs
- Index
- About the Author
- Colophon
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: Building Scalable Web Sites
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 2006
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596102357
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