Any recommendations for a book about building and running high performance, high-availability web sites on Linux?
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Theo Schlossnagle has a book called Scalable Internet Architectures which is excellent. There's a list on highscalability.com here http://highscalability.com/book-store |
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Two of my favorites:
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Depending on what db you use I would highly recommend "High Performance MySQL" if you go with MySQL. |
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use static html files or dynamic files that are heavily cached. Install the following extensions for Firefox: Firebug: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843 Yslow: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5369 Page Speed: http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/download.html Yslow and Page speed will rate your current site, and tell you where your site needs improvement. |
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A lot of useful articles about high perfomance websites you can find at http://webo.name/articles/ |
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Enterprise Rails is a great resource for this and definitely goes beyond the scope of the title of the book. |
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Building Scalable Web Sites (by Cal Henderson) and The Art of Capacity Planning (by John Allspaw) are two of my favourites. Nowadays, I'm waiting for the long awaited "Web Operations - Keeping the Data on Time", by John Allspaw and Jesse Robbins, which will be released in June. |
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