A web application involves many specialists, but it takes people in web
ops to ensure that everything works together throughout an application's
lifetime. It's the expertise you need when your start-up gets an
unexpected spike in web traffic, or when a new feature causes your
mature application to fail. In this collection of essays and interviews,
web veterans such as Theo Schlossnagle, Baron Schwartz, and Alistair
Croll offer insights into this evolving field. You'll learn stories from
the trenches--from builders of some of the biggest sites on the Web--on
what's necessary to help a site thrive.
- Learn the skills needed in web operations, and why they're gained
through experience rather than schooling
- Understand why it's important to gather metrics from both your
application and infrastructure
- Consider common approaches to database architectures and the pitfalls
that come with increasing scale
- Learn how to handle the human side of outages and degradations
- Find out how one company avoided disaster after a huge traffic deluge
- Discover what went wrong after a problem occurs, and how to prevent it
from happening again
Contributors include:
John Allspaw
Heather Champ
Michael Christian
Richard Cook
Alistair Croll
Patrick Debois
Eric Florenzano
Paul Hammond
Justin Huff
Adam Jacob
Jacob Loomis
Matt Massie
Brian Moon
Anoop Nagwani
Sean Power
Eric Ries
Theo Schlossnagle
Baron Schwartz
Andrew Shafer
