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Horizontally Scalable Web Applications

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Horizontally Scalable Web Applications - Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • What Is Scalability?
    • Scalability is not high performance
    • What goes up, must come down
  • Scalable by Design
    • Loose Coupling
    • Create APIs, assemble applications
  • Scaling Your Application
    • Horizontal vs. vertical scaling
  • Breaking It Apart – Thinking in Pieces
    • Static
    • Dynamic
      • Database Session Clustering
      • Memcached Session Clustering
      • Session Clustering with Zend Server
    • APIs
  • Scaling Your Database
    • Database Replication
    • Database Federation
    • Database Sharding
    • Alternative Data Storage Engines
      • API-only data access
      • CouchDB and Amazon SimpleDb
  • Scaling to the Cloud
    • Platform as a Service
    • Infrastructure as a Service
    • Degrade gracefully
  • Additional Reading
  • Conclusion

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