Building Scalable Web Sites

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For frontend stuff: High Performance Web Sites Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers (By Steve Souders) http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529307 And for an intro to scalability: Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, Scaling, and Optimizing the Next Generation of Web Applications (By Cal Henderson) http://www.amazon.com/Building-Scalable-Web-Sites-Applicatio...

… is Django/Python, and professionally I've spent the most time in C# and personally in Common Lisp (of course recently exploring Clojure). I enjoyed Cal Henderson's book Building Scalable Web Sites, which is PHP-based but not too PHP-specific. With that background, let me ask for the community's judgment and experience: Is there a recommended experienced programmer's guide to PHP with limitations, gotchas, and quirks? Hacker preferences on IDE's, free or not? Tools like remote debuggers? Lint equivalent? Maps of the community, libraries, and available resources? Tradeoffs of Modern frameworks, especially on the ORM side - what's the closest thing to Hibernate? Security, testing, performance best practices guides? Possibilities and limits for integration with C, JVM, .Net, and dynamic languages' existing libraries? Also, using HaXe and com…

- Building Scalable Web Sites: Building, scaling, and optimizing the next generation of web applications by Cal Henderson - Scalable Internet Architectures (Developer's Library) by Theo Schlossnagle http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/ ... and a whole buncha links on google with "scaling", although "scaling mysql" seems especially popular

You might want to read Cal Henderson's book Building Scalable Web Sites : http://www.amazon.com/dp/0596102356/

One minor correction to your very helpful post: the scalability book you are referring to is "Building Scalable Web Sites" by Cal Henderson (not Clay Shirky). http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102357/

Read Cal Henderson's book "Building Scalable Web Sites".

Hehe...perhaps it didn't really surprise me so much, maybe I was just hoping for it to be a bit better! I really don't like code that "hacks together" a solution and then requires a substantial remedy later (who does?!) so I'm quite interested in getting it right from the beginning. Assuming that many of us here develop web applications, and that some are going to need to scale heavily, what do you recommend as a good solution? I have yet to read either of these two books, but they are on my list (I only have one at home, the other I'll order): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Building-Scalable-Web-Sites-Henderso... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Performance-MySQL-Advanced-Technique... Both are O'Reilly so I'm assuming they'll be good! Let me know if you have any other resources for this, because I imagine it's a very common issue for successful startups…

…loper time are you willing to put into things like adding aggressive caching and fixing performance bottlenecks? For the technical side of things, make sure you've read "Building Scalable Web Sites", by Cal Henderson. It will help you spend your resources much more effectively.

…requirements, and then the product accumulates all these little special cases for all its cuomers. This isn't the type of complexity that expands your mind, though: it's death by thousand papercuts. If you want mind-expanding complexity, read SICP, learn Haskell, buy Building Scalable Web Sites by Cal Henderson and read through the LiveJournal source code, learn JQuery and read through the source code, and pick a fast open-source webserver like Lighttpd or Nginx and read through its source code.

…n.mp3 [1] Carson Workshops, 'Building Enterprise Web Apps on a Budget – How We Built Flickr, ~ 10Mb, 10 min.' http://odeo.com/audio/1207043/view [2] O'Reilly, 'O'Reilly, Building Scalable Web Sites, Cal Henderson. Chapter 5: Data Integrity and Security, ~ 5Mb'. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/web2apps/chapter/index.html