Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time eBook Download

A web application involves many specialists, but it takes people in web ops to ensure that everything works together throughout an application's lifetime.

Learn the skills needed in web operations, and why they're gained through experience rather than schooling Understand why it's important to gather metrics from both your application and infrastructure Consider common approaches to database architectures and the pitfalls that come with increasing scale Learn how to handle the human side of outages and degradations Find out how one company avoided disaster after a huge traffic deluge Discover what went wrong after a problem occurs, and how to prevent it from happening again

Contributors include:

John Allspaw

Heather Champ

Michael Christian

Richard Cook

Alistair Croll

Patrick Debois

Eric Florenzano

Paul Hammond

Justin Huff

Adam Jacob

Jacob Loomis

Matt Massie

Brian Moon

Anoop Nagwani

Sean Power

Eric Ries

Theo Schlossnagle

Baron Schwartz Andrew Shafer

Post-Graduate Level Internet Support
Think of this book as a post-graduate level "Introduction to Internet Support". Read the book, find what really excites you, and go make things better.


If you work in web operations READ THIS BOOK!
You are not going to find detailed how-to's or pages of code samples in this book, but you will find some amazing best-practice knowledge from people who know what they are talking about.




asks the right questions
The answers aren't always simple and the multi-author nature of the book means that the structure is not straightforward, but the book contains most of the questions that Internet application developers and maintainers should ask themselves regarding operations, monitoring, backups, and scaling. The book pours cold water on one of my cherished ideas, i.e., build an Internet application as a relational database management system application and then add a thin HTML layer on top.

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