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Scalable Internet Architectures
By Theo Schlossnagle
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Publisher: Sams
Pub Date: July 21, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-672-32699-X
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-672-32699-8
Pages: 288

Table of Contents  | Index

		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