One of my co-workers, Nathan, introduced me to this book -- "Scalable Internet Architectures" by Theo Schlossnagle. I read it in one sitting. Recommended reading for anybody who cares about scaling their web site in terms of both web/application servers and database servers. It's especially appropriate in our day and age, when cloud computing is all the rage (more on this topic in another series of posts). My preferred chapters were "Static Content Serving" (talks about wackamole and spread) and "Static Meets Dynamic" (talks about web proxy caches such as squid).
I wish the database chapter contained more in-depth architectural discussions; instead, the author spends a lot of time showing a Perl script that is supposed to illustrate some of the concepts in the chapter, but falls very short of that in my opinion.
Overall though, highly recommended.
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Thanks for the recommendation Grig!
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