An interesting and refreshing read for anyone

This is a good architectural primer on performance and scalability issues in general, and their consideration in web application design in particular.

Every chapter has introductory material explaining a specific technology, how to use it, and related performance hints. Excellent reasoning on every point and no fluff whatsoever make this book stand out among others.

This is one of those rare books in which even the material that I know well was a pleasure to read.

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• An interesting and refreshing read for anyone