Cal Henderson, Cal Henderson

Building Scalable Web Sites

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Slow websites infuriate users. Lots of people can visit yourweb site or use your web application - but you have to be prepared forthose visitors, or they won't come back. Your sites need to be built towithstand the problems success creates.Building Scalable Web Sites looks at a variety of techniques for creating sites which can keep users cheerful even when there are thousands or millions of them. Flickr.com developer, Cal Henderson, explains how to build sites so that large numbers of visitors can enjoy them. Henderson examines techniques that go beyond sheer speed, exploring how to coordinate developers, support international users,and integrate with other services from email to SOAP to RSS to the APIs exposed by many Ajax-based web applications.This book uncovers the secrets that you need to know for back-end scaling, architecture and failover so your websites can handle countless requests. You'll learn how to take the "poor man's web technologies" - Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP or other scripting languages - and scale them to compete with established "store bought" enterprise web technologies. Toward the end of the book, you'll discover techniques for keeping web applications running with event monitoring and long-term statistical tracking for capacity planning.If you're about to build your first dynamic website, then Building Scalable Web Sites isn't for you. But if you're an advanced developer who's ready to realize the cost and performance benefits of a comprehensive approach to scalable applications, then let your fingers do the walking through this convenient guide.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 349
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 181mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780596102357
• ISBN-10: 0596102356
• Artikelnr.: 20813308

Autorenporträt

Cal Henderson has been a web applications developer for far too long and should really start looking for a serious job. Originally from England, he currently works at Yahoo! Inc in San Francisco, California as the Director of Engineering for the photo-sharing service Flickr. Before Flickr, he was the technical director of Special Web Projects at emap, a UK media company. By night he works for a whole slew of web sites and communities, including the creative community B3TA and his personal site, iamcal. In his spare time, he writes windows software, develops web publishing tools, and writes occasional articles about web application development and security.

Inhaltsangabe

Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1. Introduction What Is a Web Application? How Do You Build Web Applications? What Is Architecture? How Do I Get Started? 2. Web Application Architecture Layered Software Architecture Layered Technologies Software Interface Design Getting from A to B The Software/Hardware Divide Hardware Platforms Hardware Platform Growth Hardware Redundancy Networking Languages, Technologies, and Databases 3. Development Environments The Three Rules Use Source Control One-Step Build Issue Tracking Scaling the Development Model Coding Standards Testing 4. i18n, L10n, and Unicode Internationalization and Localization Unicode in a Nutshell The UTF-8 Encoding UTF-8 Web Applications Using UTF-8 with PHP Using UTF-8 with Other Languages Using UTF-8 with MySQL Using UTF-8 with Email Using UTF-8 with JavaScript Using UTF-8 with APIs 5. Data Integrity and Security Data Integrity Policies Good, Valid, and Invalid Filtering UTF-8 Filtering Control Characters Filtering HTML Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) SQL Injection Attacks 6. Email Receiving Email Injecting Email into Your Application The MIME Format Parsing Simple MIME Emails Parsing UU Encoded Attachments TNEF Attachments Wireless Carriers Hate You Character Sets and Encodings Recognizing Your Users Unit Testing 7. Remote Services Remote Services Club Sockets Using HTTP Remote Services Redundancy Asynchronous Systems Exchanging XML Lightweight Protocols 8. Bottlenecks Identifying Bottlenecks CPU Usage I/O Memory and Swap External Services and Black Boxes Databases 9. Scaling Web Applications The Scaling Myth Scaling the Network Scaling PHP Load Balancing Scaling MySQL MySQL Replication Database Partitioning Scaling Large Database Scaling Storage Caching Scaling in a Nutshell 10. Statistics, Monitoring, and Alerting Tracking Web Statistics Application Monitoring Alerting 11. APIs Data Feeds Mobile Content Web Services API Transports API Abuse Authentication The Future Index