Building Scalable Web Sites

Preface; ; What This Book Is About; What You Need to Know; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Enabled; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 What Is a Web Application?; 1.2 How Do You Build Web Applications?; 1.3 What Is Architecture?; 1.4 How Do I Get Started?; Chapter 2: Web Application Architecture; 2.1 Layered Software Architecture; 2.2 Layered Technologies; 2.3 Software Interface Design; 2.4 Getting from A to B; 2.5 The Software/Hardware Divide; 2.6 Hardware Platforms; 2.7 Hardware Platform Growth; 2.8 Hardware Redundancy; 2.9 Networking; 2.10 Languages, Technologies, and Databases; Chapter 3: Development Environments; 3.1 The Three Rules; 3.2 Use Source Control; 3.3 One-Step Build; 3.4 Issue Tracking; 3.5 Scaling the Development Model; 3.6 Coding Standards; 3.7 Testing; Chapter 4: i18n, L10n, and Unicode; 4.1 Internationalization and Localization; 4.2 Unicode in a Nutshell; 4.3 Unicode Encodings; 4.4 The UTF-8 Encoding; 4.5 UTF-8 Web Applications; 4.6 Using UTF-8 with PHP; 4.7 Using UTF-8 with Other Languages; 4.8 Using UTF-8 with MySQL; 4.9 Using UTF-8 with Email; 4.10 Using UTF-8 with JavaScript; 4.11 Using UTF-8 with APIs; Chapter 5: Data Integrity and Security; 5.1 Data Integrity Policies; 5.2 Good, Valid, and Invalid; 5.3 Filtering UTF-8; 5.4 Filtering Control Characters; 5.5 Filtering HTML; 5.6 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS); 5.7 SQL Injection Attacks; Chapter 6: Email; 6.1 Receiving Email; 6.2 Injecting Email into Your Application; 6.3 The MIME Format; 6.4 Parsing Simple MIME Emails; 6.5 Parsing UU Encoded Attachments; 6.6 TNEF Attachments; 6.7 Wireless Carriers Hate You; 6.8 Character Sets and Encodings; 6.9 Recognizing Your Users; 6.10 Unit Testing; Chapter 7: Remote Services; 7.1 Remote Services Club; 7.2 Sockets; 7.3 Using HTTP; 7.4 Remote Services Redundancy; 7.5 Asynchronous Systems; 7.6 Exchanging XML; 7.7 Lightweight Protocols; Chapter 8: Bottlenecks; 8.1 Identifying Bottlenecks; 8.2 External Services and Black Boxes; Chapter 9: Scaling Web Applications; 9.1 The Scaling Myth; 9.2 Scaling the Network; 9.3 Load Balancing; 9.4 Scaling MySQL; 9.5 MyISAM; 9.6 MySQL Replication; 9.7 Database Partitioning; 9.8 Scaling Large Database; 9.9 Scaling Storage; Chapter 10: Statistics, Monitoring, and Alerting; 10.1 Tracking Web Statistics; 10.2 Application Monitoring; 10.3 Alerting; Chapter 11: APIs; 11.1 Data Feeds; 11.2 Mobile Content; 11.3 Web Services; 11.4 API Transports; 11.5 API Abuse; 11.6 Authentication; 11.7 The Future; Colophon;