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Scalable Web Sites


 language/lingua: english/inglese
 author(s)/autore(i): Cal Henderson
 publisher/editore: O'Reilly
 price/prezzo: 39.99 $
 pages/pagine: 348

REVIEW (Michele Lorenzini)

what I like: clarifies the need to consider many aspects of design, development, hardware and organization to achieve the goal of a scalable system.

what I don't like: sometimes too deep in detail on etherogeneus areas, can be difficult to have a complete understanding of all the 348 pages of the book

comment:
The book covers many issues about system scalability, mainly referring on web applications, but not only.
Gives a precise definition of the term "scalability" (ofter misunderstood) as the capacity of a system to handle increased volume of data and users in the time, keeping the system easy mantainable.
The content of the book is wide and spreads from team development process, to development specific issues (what and how should be implemented to have a scalable application), from tests to hardware and software setup and tuning, system monitoring and so on.
The author makes good use of the experience from the flickr project, so the book is full of practical examples and references to products and tools, open and commercial.
It mainly refers to PHP and Perl (sometimes Java) development environments.

in short: a good starting point to have a wide understanding of the scalability problems. Can also give rich informations and references if the reader focuses on his field of interest.

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