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Summary: Very good indeed
Comment: Very good material, specially in the current world where people think that their out-of-the box Java application servers will do the job of serving tons of pages a day.
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Summary: Building web-scale applications
Comment: Given the complexity of addressing 'scalability', Cal Henderson has done an amazing job of producing 348 information packed pages that will keep you glued to the end. This book is a ground up overview of the construction, security, architecture, monitoring, and yes, even scaling processes. Rarely do I find technology books that are cover-to-cover material, but this one had me asking for more, chapter after chapter. Given the scope, some of the sections are brief, but they give you just enough to kick-start your research and fill in the blanks.
If you're wondering which tools the big players use, how they scale their databases, how they monitor their servers, or even how they go about their daily life - this book is worth every penny.
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Summary: Excellent, although written for the LAMP stack
Comment: I liked the scope and thoroughness of this book, although I wish it had a little more information about writing web applications for the Windows/IIS/SQL Server/C# approach (WISC?), rather than Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP).
Great chapter about internationalization, by the way. I've never seen a better description of UTF.
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Summary: A place to start and return often
Comment: If you are a new web developer this is a survey course in what you need to know. Unfortunately if are a new web developer you probably won't get 3/4rs of what Henderson has to say. He doesn't really get into detail with any single topic in the book... leaving it to the reader to find more information later. None the less, no matter where you are on the learning curve, I consider this a vital part of any developer's library. Buy this tomb, read it in chunks if you're new and if not reread chapters at a time for inspiration of what you could be doing better.
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Summary: VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Comment: Do you have just a little experience with building dynamic web sites or applications? If you are, then this book is for you. Author Cal Henderson, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that is primarily about web application design.
Henderson, begins by looking at some general software design principles for web applications and how they apply to real world problems. Then, the author gets you quickly up to speed with the issues involved with internationalization and localization, and suggests simple ways to solve them. Next, he deals with the integrity of the data received and stored by your application. He also looks at what receiving e-mail can add to an application, how to implement e-mail receiving semantics, and the various pitfalls that occur along the way. The author then continues by dealing with protocols, formats, and strategies for exchanging data between two or more components in a web application. Then, he looks at techniques for identifying and fixing bottlenecks in your architecture, both before they happen and when they start to bog your systems down. Finally, the author looks at the techniques for scaling each area of your application.
This most excellent book looks at application architecture, development practices, technologies, Unicode, and general infrastructural work. Perhaps more importantly, this book is about the development of web applications.
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