More hardware than software

When I purchased this book I was looking for a resource that would give me some insights into architecting web applications, from the software side. While an interesting read and useful, it was mostly about the hardware scaling: servers and network. The software tips really boil down to 'once you have the hardware and network configuration figured out, write your application to use that', which is rather on the nose.

I was looking for a book with more wisdom on the software development side and was disappointed that it didn't really focus much on that part of building web sites. Despite it not being what I was looking for in particular, I'm giving it four stars because the information and presentation in the book were very useful.

Other Reviews

• More hardware than software
• covers a lot of important things, just left out building web sites
• Good, overwhelming stuff
• Very Technical - Little Fluff Here