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;