Building Scalable Web Sites
Building Scalable Web Sites Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications By Cal Henderson
May 2006
Pages: 348

| Table of Contents | Index | Sample Chapter | Colophon

Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Introduction

    1. What Is a Web Application?

    2. How Do You Build Web Applications?

    3. What Is Architecture?

    4. How Do I Get Started?

  2. Chapter 2 Web Application Architecture

    1. Layered Software Architecture

    2. Layered Technologies

    3. Software Interface Design

    4. Getting from A to B

    5. The Software/Hardware Divide

    6. Hardware Platforms

    7. Hardware Platform Growth

    8. Hardware Redundancy

    9. Networking

    10. Languages, Technologies, and Databases

  3. Chapter 3 Development Environments

    1. The Three Rules

    2. Use Source Control

    3. One-Step Build

    4. Issue Tracking

    5. Scaling the Development Model

    6. Coding Standards

    7. Testing

  4. Chapter 4 i18n, L10n, and Unicode

    1. Internationalization and Localization

    2. Unicode in a Nutshell

    3. Unicode Encodings

    4. The UTF-8 Encoding

    5. UTF-8 Web Applications

    6. Using UTF-8 with PHP

    7. Using UTF-8 with Other Languages

    8. Using UTF-8 with MySQL

    9. Using UTF-8 with Email

    10. Using UTF-8 with JavaScript

    11. Using UTF-8 with APIs

  5. Chapter 5 Data Integrity and Security

    1. Data Integrity Policies

    2. Good, Valid, and Invalid

    3. Filtering UTF-8

    4. Filtering Control Characters

    5. Filtering HTML

    6. Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

    7. SQL Injection Attacks

  6. Chapter 6 Email

    1. Receiving Email

    2. Injecting Email into Your Application

    3. The MIME Format

    4. Parsing Simple MIME Emails

    5. Parsing UU Encoded Attachments

    6. TNEF Attachments

    7. Wireless Carriers Hate You

    8. Character Sets and Encodings

    9. Recognizing Your Users

    10. Unit Testing

  7. Chapter 7 Remote Services

    1. Remote Services Club

    2. Sockets

    3. Using HTTP

    4. Remote Services Redundancy

    5. Asynchronous Systems

    6. Exchanging XML

    7. Lightweight Protocols

  8. Chapter 8 Bottlenecks

    1. Identifying Bottlenecks

    2. External Services and Black Boxes

  9. Chapter 9 Scaling Web Applications

    1. The Scaling Myth

    2. Scaling the Network

    3. Load Balancing

    4. Scaling MySQL

    5. MyISAM

    6. MySQL Replication

    7. Database Partitioning

    8. Scaling Large Database

    9. Scaling Storage

  10. Chapter 10 Statistics, Monitoring, and Alerting

    1. Tracking Web Statistics

    2. Application Monitoring

    3. Alerting

  11. Chapter 11 APIs

    1. Data Feeds

    2. Mobile Content

    3. Web Services

    4. API Transports

    5. API Abuse

    6. Authentication

    7. The Future

  1. Colophon

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