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Fully updated! Fifty Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hyper Growth
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.“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 Ruleswill be the go-to resource on your bookshelf.”
–Chad Dickerson, CTO, Etsy
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
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Preface xv
Acknowledgments xxi
About the Authors xxiii
Chapter 1: Reduce the Equation 1
规则1—Don’t Overengineer the Solution 3
规则2—Design Scale into the Solution (D-I-D Process) 6
规则3—Simplify the Solution Three Times Over 8
规则4—Reduce DNS Lookups 10
规则5—Reduce Objects Where Possible 12
规则6—Use Homogeneous Networks 15
Summary 15
Notes 16
Chapter 2: Distribute Your Work 19
规则7—Design to Clone or Replicate Things (X Axis) 22
规则8—Design to Split Different Things (Y Axis) 24
规则9—Design to Split Similar Things (Z Axis) 26
Summary 28
指出28
Chapter 3: Design to Scale Out Horizontally 29
规则10—Design Your Solution to Scale Out, Not Just Up 31
规则11—Use Commodity Systems (Goldfish Not Thoroughbreds) 33
规则12—Scale Out Your Hosting Solution 35
规则13—Design to Leverage the Cloud 40
Summary 42
Notes 42
Chapter 4: Use the Right Tools 43
规则14—Use Databases Appropriately 47
规则15—Firewalls, Firewalls Everywhere! 52
规则16—Actively Use Log Files 55
Summary 58
Notes 58
Chapter 5: Get Out of Your Own Way 59
规则17—Don’t Check Your Work 61
规则18—Stop Redirecting Traffic 64
规则19—Relax Temporal Constraints 68
Summary 70
Notes 70
Chapter 6: Use Caching Aggressively 73
规则20—Leverage Content Delivery Networks 75
规则21—Use Expires Headers 77
规则22—Cache Ajax Calls 80
规则23—Leverage Page Caches 84
规则24—Utilize Application Caches 86
规则25—Make Use of Object Caches 88
规则26—Put Object Caches on Their Own “Tier” 90
Summary 91
Notes 92
Chapter 7: Learn from Your Mistakes 93
规则27—Learn Aggressively 95
规则28—Don’t Rely on QA to Find Mistakes 100
规则29—Failing to Design for Rollback Is Designing for Failure 102
Summary 105
Notes 106
Chapter 8: Database Rules 107
规则30—Remove Business Intelligence from Transaction Processing 109
规则31—Be Aware of Costly Relationships 111
规则32—Use the Right Type of Database Lock 114
规则33—Pass on Using Multiphase Commits 116
规则34—Try Not to Use Select for Update 118
规则35—Don’t Select Everything 120
Summary 121
Notes 122
Chapter 9: Design for Fault Tolerance and Graceful Failure 123
规则36—Design Using Fault-Isolative “Swim Lanes” 124
规则37—Never Trust Single Points of Failure 130
规则38—Avoid Putting Systems in Series 132
规则39—Ensure That You Can Wire On and Off Features 135
Summary 138
Chapter 10: Avoid or Distribute State 139
规则40—Strive for Statelessness 140
规则41—Maintain Sessions in the Browser When Possible 142
规则42—Make Use of a Distributed Cache for States 144
Summary 146
Notes 146
Chapter 11: Asynchronous Communication and Message Buses 147
规则43—Communicate Asynchronously as Much as Possible 149
规则44—Ensure That Your Message Bus Can Scale 151
规则45—Avoid Overcrowding Your Message Bus 154
Summary 157
Chapter 12: Miscellaneous Rules 159
规则46—Be Wary of Scaling through Third Parties 161
规则47—Purge, Archive, and Cost-Justify Storage 163
规则48—Partition Inductive, Deductive, Batch, and User Interaction (OLTP) Workloads 166
规则49—Design Your Application to Be Monitored 169
规则50—Be Competent 172
Summary 174
Notes 174
Chapter 13: Rule Review and Prioritization 177
一个公关风险-效益评估模型的可伸缩性ojects and Initiatives 177
50 Scalability Rules in Brief 180
A Benefit/Priority Ranking of the Scalability Rules 200
Summary 202
Index 205