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Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Site Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher. 2011. Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional (www.pearsoned.com) 272 pages. ISBN: 0321753887
CSQE Body of Knowledge area: III.B Systems Architecture
Scalability Rules offers clear, understandable, and, most importantly, practical solutions to the real problems in building high-traffic websites. If one is building commercial Internet sites, then this is a must-read title from Abbott and Fisher. It is an incorporation of many years of hands-on experience at scaling eBay by Marty as well as understanding what thriving companies are doing behind the scenes to scale.
Just applying one of these rules successfully can radically transform the course of how a company scales and how customers interact with a product. The book covers 50 timetested key rules varying in size and complexity on scaling...