Scalability Rules: 50 Principles for Scaling Web Sites (Paperback)

“Once again, Abbott and Fisher provide a book that I’ll be giving to our engineers. It’s an essential read for anyone dealing with scaling an online business.”

—Chris Lalonde, VP, Technical Operations and Infrastructure Architecture, Bullhorn

 

“Abbott and Fisher again tackle the difficult problem of scalability in their unique and practical manner. Distilling the challenges of operating a fast-growing presence on the Internet into 50 easy-to understand rules, the authors provide a modern cookbook of scalability recipes that guide the reader through the difficulties of fast growth.”

—Geoffrey Weber, Vice President, Internet Operations, Shutterfly

 

“Abbott and Fisher have distilled years of wisdom into a set of cogent principles to avoid many nonobvious mistakes.”

—Jonathan Heiliger, VP, Technical Operations, Facebook

 

“In The Art of Scalability, the AKF team taught us that scale is not just a technology challenge. Scale is obtained only through a combination of people, process, and technology. With Scalability Rules, Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher fill our scalability toolbox with easily implemented and time-tested rules that once applied will enable massive scale.”

—Jerome Labat,VP, Product Development IT, Intuit

 

“When I joined Etsy, I partnered with Mike and Marty to hit the ground running in my new role, and it was one of the best investments of time I have made in my career. The indispensable advice from my experience working with Mike and Marty is fully captured here in this book. Whether you’re taking on a role as a technology leader in a new company or you simply want to make great technology decisions, Scalability Rules will be the go-to resource on your bookshelf.”

—Chad Dickerson, CTO, Etsy

 

“Scalability Rules provides an essential set of practical tools and concepts anyone can use when designing, upgrading, or inheriting a technology platform. It’s very easy to focus on an immediate problem and overlook issues that will appear in the future. This book ensures strategic design principles are applied to everyday challenges.”

—Robert Guild, Director and Senior Architect, Financial Services

 

“An insightful, practical guide to designing and building scalable systems. A must-read for both product-building and operations teams, this book offers concise and crisp insights gained from years of practical experience of AKF principals. With the complexity of modern systems, scalability considerations should be an integral part of the architecture and implementation process. Scaling systems for hypergrowth requires an agile, iterative approach that is closely aligned with product features; this book shows you how.”

—Nanda Kishore, Chief Technology Officer, ShareThis

 

“For organizations looking to scale technology, people, and processes rapidly or effectively, the twin pairing of Scalability Rules and The Art of Scalability are unbeatable. The rules-driven approach in Scalability Rules makes this not only an easy reference companion, but also allows organizations to tailor the Abbott and Fisher approach to their specific needs both immediately and in the future!”

—Jeremy Wright, CEO, BNOTIONS.ca and Founder, b5media

 

50 Powerful, Easy-to-Use Rules for Supporting Hypergrowth in Any Environment

 

Scalability Rules is the easy-to-use scalability primer and reference for every architect, developer, web professional, and manager. Authors Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher have helped scale more than 200 hypergrowth Internet sites through their consulting practice. Now, drawing on their unsurpassed experience, they present 50 clear, proven scalability rules–and practical guidance for applying them.

 

Abbott and Fisher transform scalability from a “black art” to a set of realistic, technology-agnostic best practices for supporting hypergrowth in nearly any environment, including both frontend and backend systems.

 

For architects, they offer powerful new insights for creating and evaluating designs. For developers, they share specific techniques for handling everything from databases to state. For managers, they provide invaluable help in goal-setting, decision-making, and interacting with technical teams. Whatever your role, you’ll find practical risk/benefit guidance for setting priorities–and getting maximum “bang for the buck.”

 

•  Simplifying architectures and avoiding “over-engineering”

•  Scaling via cloning, replication, separating functionality, and splitting data sets

•  Scaling out, not up

•  Getting more out of databases without compromising scalability

•  Avoiding unnecessary redirects and redundant double-checking

•  Using caches and content delivery networks more aggressively, without introducing unacceptable complexity

•  Designing for fault tolerance, graceful failure, and easy rollback

•  Striving for statelessness when you can; efficiently handling state when you must

•  Effectively utilizing asynchronous communication

•  Learning quickly from mistakes, and much more

「再次，Abbott和Fisher提供了一本我們將送給我們的工程師的書。對於任何處理在線業務擴展的人來說，這是一本必讀之作。」- Chris Lalonde，Bullhorn技術運營和基礎架構架構副總裁

「Abbott和Fisher再次以他們獨特而實用的方式解決了可擴展性的困難問題。將在互聯網上運營快速增長的挑戰縮小為50條易於理解的規則，作者提供了一本現代的可擴展性食譜，引導讀者克服快速增長的困難。」- Geoffrey Weber，Shutterfly互聯網運營副總裁

「Abbott和Fisher將多年的智慧凝縮成一套明確的原則，以避免許多不明顯的錯誤。」- Jonathan Heiliger，Facebook技術運營副總裁

「在《可擴展性的藝術》中，AKF團隊教會了我們，規模不僅僅是一個技術挑戰。只有通過人、流程和技術的結合才能實現規模。在《可擴展性規則》中，Martin Abbott和Michael Fisher用易於實施和經過時間驗證的規則填充了我們的可擴展性工具箱，一旦應用，將實現大規模。」- Jerome Labat，Intuit產品開發IT副總裁

「當我加入Etsy時，我與Mike和Marty合作，以迅速適應我的新角色，這是我職業生涯中最好的時間投資之一。我在與Mike和Marty合作的經驗中得到的不可或缺的建議完全體現在這本書中。無論您是在新公司擔任技術領導角色，還是只是想做出偉大的技術決策，《可擴展性規則》將成為您書架上的首選資源。」- Chad Dickerson，Etsy首席技術官

「《可擴展性規則》提供了一套實用工具和概念，任何人在設計、升級或繼承技術平台時都可以使用。很容易專注於眼前的問題，忽視將來可能出現的問題。這本書確保戰略設計原則應用於日常挑戰。」- Robert Guild，金融服務總監和高級架構師

「這是一本洞察力和實用性指南，用於設計和構建可擴展系統。對於產品建設和運營團隊來說，這本書提供了簡潔明快的見解，這些見解來自AKF負責人多年的實踐經驗。在現代系統的複雜性下，可擴展性考慮應該成為架構和實施過程的一部分。將系統擴展到超高增長需要一種與產品特性緊密結合的敏捷、迭代方法，這本書向您展示了如何做到這一點。」- Nanda Kishore，ShareThis首席技術官

「對於希望快速或有效地擴展技術、人員和流程的組織來說，《可擴展性規則》和《可擴展性的藝術》的組合是無與倫比的。《可擴展性規則》中的規則驅動方法使其不僅成為一本易於參考的伴侶，還允許組織根據自己的特定需求立即和未來自由地適應Abbott和Fisher的方法！」- Jeremy Wright，BNOTIONS.ca首席執行官和b5media創始人