Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time |  | Authors: John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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Product Description
A web application involves many specialists, but it takes people in web ops to ensure that everything works together throughout an application's lifetime. It's the expertise you need when your start-up gets an unexpected spike in web traffic, or when a new feature causes your mature application to fail. In this collection of essays and interviews, web veterans such as Theo Schlossnagle, Baron Schwartz, and Alistair Croll offer insights into this evolving field. You'll learn stories from the trenches--from builders of some of the biggest sites on the Web--on what's necessary to help a site thrive. - 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
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asks the right questions July 12, 2010
Philip Greenspun (Cambridge, MA USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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. But the authors and the experience of popular sites such as Facebook argue in favor of relegating the database to a very simple supporting role.
If you work in web operations READ THIS BOOK! July 14, 2010
Dave Anderson (Philadelphia, PA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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. Web Operations is still a young discipline, but being armed with the knowledge and experience in this book may be the difference between a lot of sleepless nights or an infrastructure that hums along quietly.
Post-Graduate Level Internet Support August 23, 2010
Leam Hall (SW Georgia, USA)
Think of this book as a post-graduate level "Introduction to Internet Support". The authors advocate all those things experienced technicians know make the real difference; metrics, disaster planning, cross-team communication...the list goes on and on.
If you're a technician, read this book and start working the practices. Graph some performance, spend time with the coders, think through how you might deal with double or triple your current traffic or server load. You will become the "go to" person when there are questions and your career will get a lot more fun!
At the (Project) Manager level? Buy copies for everyone on your team and start enabling them. Focus on one or two avenues and break down the barriers to effective efficiency. Demonstrate the advantages to your senior managment so they green light bigger, more challenging tasks. Find those one or two folks whose minds are open to the possibilities and give them a copy of Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly)). Expect others to look to you for advice.
This isn't a "Try this code" sort of book! There's a bit of challenge if you go to work, ask about metrics, and get blank stares. Challenge...opportunity...options. Read the book, find what really excites you, and go make things better.
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