Building Scalable Web Sites Cal Henderson
Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications by Cal Henderson (Author) # Paperback: 348 pages # Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.; illustrated edition edition (Ma.. In continuing some of my thoughts and reviews of the RightScale service. This, and many other real life anecdotes, make Building Scalable Web Sites: The Flickr Way by Yahoo's Cal Henderson, the engineering manager for photo-sharing service Flickr, a memorable read. The best practices listed below are the keys to building out scalable websites that easily adapt to growing markets and products/niches. Building Scalable Databases: Are Relational Databases Compatible with Large Scale Websites? Posted by admin Published in Tech, Web Programming. A few weeks ago Todd Hoff over on the High Scalability blog penned a blog post titled MySQL and Memcached: End of an Era? Building Scalable Web Services. I've recently had to become more familiar with how to scale up a website to take more traffic and have some redundancy. In the natural world and history of big corporations, monopolizing smaller businesses is one of the most conventional wisdoms that they all perceive as a key to progressively succeed in their own respective industries. Build only what you really need. I'm in the process of reading a book called "Building Scalable Web Sites, by Flickr's Cal Henderson" and would like you put into practice some of these principles and see how I get on. I have quick review of another excellent post by the folks at the RightScale on their blog1. We started High Scalability to help you build successful scalable websites. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, Building Scalable Web Sites offers techniques for creating fast sites that your visitors will find a pleasure to use. What exactly does it mean to build and operate a scalable web site orapplication?