Web operations
by John Allspaw · first published 2010
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I'd suggest reading this if you want to be a technical co founder. There's more to running a successful web app than building it. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/...
on “Ask HN: Fundamental texts for serious web engineers?” ↗I'd like to recommend "Web Operations" by Allspaw http://www.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/14...
on “Ask HN: How to learn web scalability?” ↗Have a look at "Web Operations". It deals with all the components of building and operating a large web application. http://www.amazon.com/Web-Operations-Keeping-Data-Time/dp/14...
on “Ask HN: What are other “major components” of highly performant web applications?” ↗A good book on the topic is "Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time"
on “Ask HN: How can I learn to architect a production web app?” ↗Hi I am trying my hand in writing a SaaS application. I have been reading blogs by Eric Ries and others. I am reading through Web Operations book by John Allspaw and I am determined to make sure I have Continuous Deployment for my SaaS. Right now, I have a AWS EC2 instance running. My SaaS application is 50% ready. I use Git for Version…
on “Ask HN: How to hire freelancers specialized in continuous deployment?” ↗…up through a series of gambles – and you never hear about the good ones. Interesting it is written by a doctor about medical environments, but works for any complex system. The essay is reproduced in Web Operations by John Allspaw and Jesse Robbins with a web ops spin on it, and is also available online at http://www.ctlab.org/documents/How%20Complex%20Systems%20Fai...
on “Tarsnap outage post-mortem” ↗…close these books come to this? Or recommend other books? Building Scalable Web Sites http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102357 The Art of Capacity Planning http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518585 Web Operations http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920000136
on “Disqus: Scaling the World’s Largest Django Application” ↗…before it was cool). For details, I think this presentation is probably the best: http://www.slideshare.net/bgdurrett/sds-2010-continuous-depl... I've also contributed a chapter on it to the new O'Reilly Web Operations book: http://bit.ly/WebOperations
on “How Digg does continuous deployment” ↗