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 AllspawHeather ChampMichael ChristianRichard CookAlistair CrollPatrick DeboisEric FlorenzanoPaul HammondJustin HuffAdam JacobJacob LoomisMatt MassieBrian MoonAnoop NagwaniSean PowerEric RiesTheo SchlossnagleBaron SchwartzAndrew Shafer

edited by John Allspaw and Jesse Robbins

Allspaw, John, Robbins, Jesse

Beijing [China] ; Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly

1st ed., Beijing [China], Sebastopol, CA, China, 2010

United States, United States of America

1. Aufl, Beijing ; Köln, 2010

1, PS, 2010

"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 your 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 degradation; find out how one company avoided disaster after a huge traffic deluge; discover--after a problem occurs--what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes index.

xvii, 315 p. : 24 cm
"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 your 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 degradation; find out how one company avoided disaster after a huge traffic deluge; discover--after a problem occurs--what went wrong and how to prevent it from happening again"--P. [4] of cover
Includes index

Learn what it takes to build and maintain high-traffic websites with Web Operations. Featuring essays from today's top web veterans, this insightful book shows you how to run your web ops as reliably and effectively as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo run theirs. Even if your site never gets that big, you'll profit from the experience and knowledge of the people who created sites for these and other industry giants. http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920000136

Featuring essays from today's top web engineers, this insightful book shows you how to run your web operations as reliably and effectively as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! run theirs. Even if your site never gets that big, you'll profit from the experience and knowledge of the people who created sites for these and other industry giants

2023-06-28