Scalability Rules 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites

by Abbott, Martin L.; Fisher, Michael T.

• ISBN13: 9780321753885
• ISBN10: 0321753887
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-05-05
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Summary

In their successful first book, The Art of Scalability, AKF Partners cofounders Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher drew on their unparalleled experience managing some of the world's highest transaction volume Web sites to cover everything IT and business leaders need to know to build smoothly scaling technology infrastructures. Now in Scalability Rules the authors tackle scalability once again, this time breaking it down into 50 rules that must be followed for effective and manageable growth. Few people have effectively scaled their Web platforms to the size of Amazon, Google, eBay, and Facebook. Scalability Rules takes a direct approach by presenting fundamental principles in an easily read and digestible format for rapid application to almost any technical environment. It will be useful to all readers as a primer, a refresher, and as a reference. Its principles can be used to form the basis of architectural strategy for just about any company dealing with hypergrowth in the Web 2.0 world. **This book is currently available in Rough Cut format; as the authors write chapters they will be added here. Subscribers will be notified as more chapters become available.

Author Biography

Martin L. Abbott, formerly COO of Quigo, spent nearly six years at eBay, most recently as SVP of Technology/CTO. He has held engineering, management, and executive positions at Gateway and Motorola. Michael T. Fisher, a veteran software and technology executive, spent two years as CTO of Quigo. Previously, as VP of Engineering Architecture for PayPal, he led 200+ developers. Abbott and Fisher co-authored The Art of Scalability (Addison-Wesley).

Table of Contents

Preface	p. viii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
About the Authors	p. xiv
Reduce the Equation	p. 1
Distribute Your Work	p. 23
Design to Scale Out Horizontally	p. 35
Use the Right Tools	p. 53
Don't Duplicate Your Work	p. 71
Use Caching Aggressively	p. 87
Learn from Your Mistakes	p. 113
Database Rules	p. 129
Design for Fault Tolerance and Graceful Failure	p. 147
Avoid or Distribute State	p. 167
Asynchronous Communication and Message Buses	p. 179
Miscellaneous Rules	p. 193
Rule Review and Prioritization	p. 213
Index	p. 247
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