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Scalable Internet Architectures

ISBN: 067232699X
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 114

Authors: Theo Schlossnagle

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• Scalable Internet Architectures
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• About the Author
• Acknowledgments
• We Want to Hear from You
• Reader Services
• Introduction
• What You ll Find Inside
• The Challenge
• Chapter 1. Scaling Up (and Down)
• Defining Scalability
• Why Do We Need to Scale?
• What Goes Up Should Go Down
• Real-World Considerations
• Being a Good Architect
• Chapter 2. Principles for Avoiding Failure
• Working in Production Environments
• The Dot Bomb and Its Effect on Building Large Systems
• Stability and Control
• Good Design
• Chapter 3. Mission-Critical Environments
• High Availability
• Monitoring
• Coping with Release Cycles
• The Cost of Complexity Shackled to Large Architectures
• Looking for Speed
• It s Not a One-Man Mission
• Chapter 4. High Availability. HA No Downtime?
• Why High Availability and Load Balancing Are Different
• Traditional High AvailabilityThe Whitepaper Approach
• High Availability Rethought (Peer-Based)
• Diverging from the Web: High Availability for Email, DNS, and So On
• Chapter 5. Load Balancing and the Utter Confusion Surrounding It
• Load Balancing Basics
• IP-Friendly Services
• Web Switches
• IP Virtual Servers
• Application Layer Load Balancers
• Abusing the Term
• The Web and Beyond
• Session Stickiness: A Fatal Misconception
• So, Which One Is the Best?
• Chapter 6. Static Content Serving for Speed and Glory
• What s So Tricky?
• The Goal
• Building the Cluster
• Tackling Content Distribution
• Choosing a Web Serving Platform
• Examining Our Availability Requirements
• Choosing an OS
• Wackamole
• Serving Content
• World Domination
• DNS Round-Trip Times
• AnycastShared IP
• A Final Review
• Chapter 7. Static Meets Dynamic Adding Caches to Reduce Costs
• Types of Caches
• Deploying Caches
• Serving a News Site
• Caching Is Powerful
• Chapter 8. Distributed Databases Are Easy, Just Read the Fine Print
• What Is a Distributed Database?
• Why Is Replication So Hard?
• Multimaster Replication
• Master-Master Replication
• Master-Slave Replication
• News Site Revisited
• Same Vendor Database Replication Is Easy
• Chapter 9. Juggling Logs and Other Circus Tricks
• Why Is Logging a Challenge?
• Classic Solutions
• Logging Done Right
• The Architecture (Servers, Software, and Roles)
• Building It
• Understanding the Beauty of the Beast
• Visualizing Data with RRDtool
• Generic Uses
• Chapter 10. The Right Tool for the Job
• Who s Online?
• Who s Online Reviewed
• Appendix A. Appendix
• Spread
• Group Communication
• Introducing...Spread
• Installation and Configuration
• Getting Started
• A Practical Example
• Index
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