is the book "Building Scalable Web Sites" (2006) still relevant?
Ted Young
That book is a classic overview by a very knowledgeable person ( Cal
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Henderson co-founded Flickr and now Slack). I'm sure the general strategies and thinking are still relevant. That said, if you are looking for details about specific technology, that book is too outdated to be useful. Also, most of the architecture and capacity planning he focuses on in that book is supplied by Cloud Foundry, and utility/cloud computing in general. So, like reading Roy Fieldings' REST paper, it could help you learn some of the fundamentals present in many internet systems. But it won't teach you practical details about tactical decisions you have to make regarding technology choices. The other classic I associate with Cal's book is Martin Folwers "patterns of enterprise architecture". The patterns themselves might be a little rusty, but the overview sections cover the fundamental problems that most web applications have to deal with, and how dealing with these problems results in the architectures we now find standard and familiar. That material is more focused on the kind of application development done on CF. Sadly, I don't have a recommendation for a modern book on micro-services or stateless front-end applications. Most books in this category are not great, the advice is usually very shallow. I'd love to hear about a good one.
On Saturday, March 26, 2016, Lukas Lehner <weblehner(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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