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- Scalable Internet Architectures
- 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
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