Web Operations

Learn how to build and maintain high-traffic websites with Web Operations. Featuring essays from today's top web engineers, this insightful book shows you how to run your web operations as reliably and effectively as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! run theirs. Even if your site never gets that big, you'll profit from the experience and knowledge of the people who created sites for these and other industry giants.Inspired by Velocity, O'Reilly's popular web performance and operations conference, Web Operations is the first comprehensive book available on this emerging discipline. With it, you'll focus less on specific technologies and more on how the entire system works together, taking into account topics such as incident handling, business continuity planning, community management during outages, and much more. Help your websites run faster and more smoothly while handling more traffic Perform upgrades to the site while minimizing downtime, and learn how to avoid problems that might arise in the process Handle huge surges in traffic that come with successful new products, so that your site remains stable despite the demandWhy design for failure? Plan ahead and learn how to avoid -- or solve -- the performance problems you're likely to run into when your site really takes off.

John Allspaw is currently Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr, the popular photo site. He has had extensive experience working with growing web sites since 1999. These include online news magazines (Salon.com, InfoWorld.com, Macworld.com) and social networking sites that experienced extreme growth (Friendster and Flickr). During his time at Friendster, traffic increased 5X. He was responsible for their transition from a couple dozen servers in a failing data center to over 400 machines across two data centers, and the complete redesign of the backing infrastructure. When he joined Flickr, they had 10 servers in a tiny data center in Vancouver; they are now located in multiple data centers across the US. Prior to his web experience, Allspaw worked in modeling and simulation as a mechanical engineer doing car crash simulations for the NHTSA.

Jesse Robbins is passionate about infrastructure, emergency management, and technology that helps people be safe, happy, and free. He serves as co-chair of the Velocity Performance & Operations Conference and is part of the O'Reilly Radar. Jesse currently advises companies in Seattle and San Francisco. He previously worked at Amazon.com where his title was "Master of Disaster" and where he was responsible for Website Availability. Jesse is a volunteer Firefighter/EMT & Emergency Manager, and led a task force deployed in Operation Hurricane Katrina.

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