I read the "Building Scalable Web" book first since it's from a famous publisher, O'Reilly, and talk about a famous website, Flickr.
But, this book is a whole lot better.
When it comes to scale a server, it's never about which tool do you use. It's more like philosophical decisions that you constantly need to make. The BSW book talks about tools a lot, but not about the decision making process and the impacts/reason/trade off for each decision. This book covers it all.
If you have time to read only one book, get this one.
Fantastic book, really
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书名： Scalable Internet Architectures
作者： Theo Schlossnagle
出版社： Sams Publishing
出版年： 2006-7-31
页数： 288
定价： USD 49.99
装帧： Paperback
ISBN： 9780672326998