Good, overwhelming stuff

The book is getting a little dated, but most of what's in here still makes sense. I actually put it away after reading 50% of it because it keeps making me feel stressed about all the things I haven't done yet with my own web application. There really is a lot of truth to the Getting Real approach of not worrying about scaling before you actually need to.
I would have loved an abbreviated version of this book which might have told me the few things that are really worthwhile to start doing right from the beginning. Now I am mostly overwhelmed and may actually be more likely to ignore every concern listed in this book until just after it's too late.

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