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Web Operations

iOS iPhone

By John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins
Published by O'Reilly Media (http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920000136)

Learn Web Ops from Longtime Pros

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 its 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

Superb Reading Features

Through a partnership between O'Reilly Media and Lexcycle, this app includes the same features that have made Stanza an iPhone phenomenon with over a million downloads:
* Full book text search
* Several fonts and themes to choose from
* Built-in dictionary
* The ability to add annotations
* Landscape view
* Extensive cross-referencing and working hyperlinks
* Zoom function for images and screenshots

About O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation. Learn more about Ebooks from O'Reilly at oreilly.com/ebooks.

About Lexcycle

Lexcycle is the creator of Stanza Bookbinder which was used to create this standalone book application. Stanza Bookbinder is based on the popular iPhone Ebook reading application, Stanza. For more information about Stanza, visit www.lexcycle.com.