Michael T. Fisher

Martin L. Abbott

Overcome IT scalability problems by optimizing everything that affects scalability: architecture, processes, people, and organization • •By authors who've operated and scaled some of the world's highest-transaction volume websites - for companies including eBay and PayPal •Goes beyond covering just technology to address every issue that matters •Provides detailed models and proven approaches available in no other book. •Includes indispensable metrics, complete with actual calculations. Successful modern enterprises share two key challenges: their rapid growth often leads to business-critical technology failures, and it's difficult for them to find people with the talent and experience to fix these problems. For these enterprises, scalability is the 'holy grail.' In at eBay and PayPal cover everything IT and business leaders must know in order to build infrastructures that will scale smoothly in the face of any business challenge. Drawing on their unparalleled experience managing some of the world's highest-transaction-volume websites, the authors provide detailed models and best practice approaches for scaling any online or web services platform to meet virtually any business requirement. Unlike other books on scalability The Art of Scalability, former CTOsThe Art of Scalability doesn't limit its coverage to technology. This book covers everything that matters - architecture, processes, and organization. Replete with examples, it presents indispensable metrics - complete with actual calculations for everything from availability and capacity to load and performance. Along the way, the authors address a remarkably broad spectrum of real-world challenges, from database performance to IT governance. Using this book's tools and guidance, organizations can rethink their technology architectures to systematically overcome obstacles to scalability, and achieve unprecedented levels of technical and business performance.

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Scalability Rules

Fully updated! Fifty Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hyper Growth "Whether you're taking on a role as a technology leader in a new company or you simply want to make great technology decisions, Scalability Rules will be the go-to resource on your bookshelf." -Chad Dickerson, CTO, Etsy Scalability Rules, Second Edition, is the easy-to-use scalability primer and reference for every architect, developer, network/software engineer, web professional, and manager. Authors Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher have helped scale hundreds of high-growth companies and thousands of systems. Drawing on their immense experience, they present 50 up-to-the-minute technical best practices for supporting hyper growth practically anywhere. Fully updated to reflect new technical trends and experiences, this edition is even easier to read, understand, and apply. Abbott and Fisher have also added powerful "stories behind the rules": actual experiences and case studies from CTOs and technology executives at Etsy, NASDAQ, Salesforce, Shutterfly, Chegg, Warby Parker, Twitter, and other scalability pioneers. Architects will find powerful technology-agnostic insights for creating and evaluating designs. Developers will discover specific techniques for handling everything from databases to state. Managers will get invaluable help in setting goals, making decisions, and interacting with technical teams. Whatever your role, you'll find practical risk/benefit guidance for setting priorities, translating plans into action, and gaining maximum scalability at minimum cost. You'll learn how to Simplify architectures and avoid "over-engineering" Design scale into your solution, so you can scale on a just-in-time basis Make the most of cloning and replication Separate functionality and split data sets Scale out, not up Get more out of databases without compromising scalability Eliminate unnecessary redirects and redundant double-checking Use caches and CDNs more aggressively, without unacceptable complexity Design for fault tolerance, graceful failure, and easy rollback Emphasize statelessness, and efficiently handle state when you must Effectively utilize asynchronous communication Learn from your own mistakes and others' high-profile failures Prioritize your actions to get the biggest "bang for the buck"

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