Books

Someone once said, “A metaphor is like a simile.” Although mostly bereft of such wit, our books are almost as much fun.

Scalable Internet Architectures by Theo Schlossnagle

Scalable Internet Architectures by Theo Schlossnagle ~ (Sams) 2006

Scalable Internet Architectures teaches you both good and bad design methodologies for building new sites and how to scale existing web sites to robust, high-availability web sites.

Advanced PHP Programming by George Schlossnagle

Advanced PHP Programming by George Schlossnagle ~ (Sams) 2004

Advanced PHP Programming shows you how to develop PHP-based applications for maximum performance, stability, and extensibility.

Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 by Jason Gilmore and Robert Treat

Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 by Jason Gilmore and Robert Treat ~ (Apress) 2006

Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8 delves into some of the most popular open source web development technologies, the PostgreSQL database server and PHP programming language.

Web Operations by Jesse Robbins and John Allspaw

Web Operations by Jesse Robbins and John Allspaw ~ (O’Reilly) 2010

Web Operations features essays from today’s top web engineers providing invaluable insightful that shows you how to run your web operations as reliably and effectively as Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! run theirs.