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Building Scalable Web Sites Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications

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ISBN-10: 0596102356

ISBN-13: 9780596102357

Edition: 2006

Authors: Cal Henderson

List price: $39.99
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This book is a front-to-back look at Web 2.0 applications, focusing on architecture and implementation. Using Ajax for web sites is all the rage, but they lack a scalable architecture. You'll learn how to take what some call the "poor man's web technologies" -- Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP or other scripting languages -- and scale them to compete with established "store bought" enterprise web technologies. The author led the Flickr software development team and uses real world examples to explain how to design and build Ajax-style client-like applications on the Web with XMLHttpRequest -- without compromising web site performance. "Building Scalable Web Sites" goes beyond the standard Ajax…    
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Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 348
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.17" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Preface
Introduction
Web Application Architecture
Development Environments
i18n, L10n, and Unicode
Data Integrity and Security
Email
Remote Services
Bottlenecks
Scaling Web Applications
Statistics, Monitoring, and Alerting
APIs
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