Shallow yet useful to some extent, but comes at a high price

This book although repeats a lot of basic information like the internet is mostly comprised of TCP/IP, and then there is UDP over IP. The most shocking thing was to see the Author refer to UDP as Unreliable Datagram Protocol, where as that is the most common pun made of UDP, but it really stands for User Datagram Protocol.
If one is willing to ignore such basic errors and continue on still trusting the author, they would find some useful concepts. This book hence can be used as a concept Dictionary, where one could pick the book go to the index, and look up the concept like web caching, connection mgmt etc, and read about it, along with performance and scalability implications.
If you keep your expectations low, then its a good book. But well at $45 retail price, how many people would keep their expectations low ?

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