Practical load balancing ride the performance tiger
The emergence of the cloud and modern, fast corporate networks demands that you perform judicious balancing of computational loads. Practical Load Balancing presents an entire analytical framework to increase performance not just of one machine, but of your entire infrastructure. Practical Load Bala...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Apress
2012.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2012. |
| Colección: | The expert's voice in networking Practical load balancing
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009628601206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Authors; About the Technical Reviewers; Special Thanks to serverlove; Acknowledgments; Preface; Target Audience; Book Structure; Downloading the Code; Chapter 1: Introduction; The Problem; The Solution; What Is Load Balancing?; Load Balancing, Old Style; Load Balancing, New Style; Scaling Up; Scaling Out; Load Balancing, Finally; What Makes the Web Tick?; Caching: Warp Drive for Your Web Site; Load Balancing with DNS; Content Delivery Networks; Proper Planning Prevents Pretty Poor Performance; The Essentials; HTTP Load Balancing
- Load Balancing Your DatabaseLoad Balancing Your Network Connection; SSL Load Balancing; Clustering for High Availability; Load Balancing in the Cloud; IPv6: Implementation and Concepts; Where To Go Next; Summary; Chapter 2: How Web Sites Work; Let the Games Commence!; Coming from a Non-IT Background; Kicking Off the Process; Finding the Site with DNS; Connecting to the Server (Finally!); On the Server Itself; Talking to the Database; Quick Look at Caching; Back to the Client; Taking a Closer Look; The Network; TCP; DNS; Speed, Bandwidth, and Latency; Network Summary; HTML and the Web; HTML
- Why is Text-Based Important?Why is Linking Important?; HTML Summary; The Browser; Web Content; Static Content; Dynamic Content; Creating Dynamic Content; Web Content Summary; Databases: The Weakest Link; Summary; Chapter 3: Content Caching: Keeping the Load Light; What Is a Cache?; Whistle Stop Tour; Browser-based Caching; Web Accelerators; Web Proxies; Transparent Web Proxies; Edge-based Caching; Platform Caching; Application Caching; Database Caching; Just the Beginning...; Caching Theory: Why Is It so Hard?; HTTP 1.0 Caching Support; HTTP 1.1 Enhanced Caching Support; The Solution
- Caching Isn't as Easy as It LooksWeb Proxies; The Squid Proxy Server; Getting Started; Troubleshooting; Transparent Proxies; What's Going On; Getting a Helping Hand; Squid, the Swiss Army Knife of Proxies; Edge-based Caching: Introducing Varnish; Sane Caching by Default; Installing Varnish; Getting Up and Running; Customizing Varnish; Summary; Chapter 4: DNS Load Balancing; DNS Details; The IP Address; The Problem; The Solution; Taking a Step Back; DNS in Depth; Querying Yourself; Advanced DNS Queries; DNS Caching; Querying your DNS Cache; DNS Cache in Linux; The Real Stuff; BIND9
- DNS DB HeaderRefresh; Retry; Expire; Min; DNS Database Entries; Nameserver (NS); Mail Exchange (MX); A Records; Canonical Name (CNAME); Loading your DB; Checking the Config; Common Issues; Testing your DNS; DNS Load Balancing; Advantages of DNS Load Balancing; Issues with DNS Load Balancing; Summary; Chapter 5: Content Delivery Networks; Choosing a CDN Provider; Getting Started with Rackspace; Adding Content to Your CDN Account; The Rackspace Cloud Files API; Integrating the API into PHP; Authenticating with Your API Key; Connecting and Disconnecting; Working with Containers
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