Foundations of Scalable Systems: Designing Distributed Architectures


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In many systems, scalability becomes the primary driver as the user base grows. Attractive features and high utility breed success, which brings more requests to handle and more data to manage. But organizations reach a tipping point when design decisions that made sense under light loads suddenly become technical debt. This practical book covers design approaches and technologies that make it possible to scale an application quickly and cost-effectively.

Author Ian Gorton takes software architects and developers through the foundational principles of distributed systems. You'll explore the essential ingredients of scalable solutions, including replication, state management, load balancing, and caching. Specific chapters focus on the implications of scalability for databases, microservices, and event-based streaming systems.

You will focus on:

  • Foundations of scalable systems: Learn basic design principles of scalability, its costs, and architectural tradeoffs
  • Designing scalable services: Dive into service design, caching, asynchronous messaging, serverless processing, and microservices
  • Designing scalable data systems: Learn data system fundamentals, NoSQL databases, and eventual consistency versus strong consistency
  • Designing scalable streaming systems: Explore stream processing systems and scalable event-driven processing

    Author: Ian Gorton
    Publisher: O'Reilly Media
    Published: 08/09/2022
    Pages: 337
    Binding Type: Paperback
    Weight: 1.20lbs
    Size: 9.19h x 7.00w x 0.71d
    ISBN13: 9781098106065
    ISBN10: 1098106067
    BISAC Categories:
    - Computers | Distributed Systems | Client-Server Computing
    - Computers | Software Development & Engineering | General