ApacheCon US 2009 Session

Scalable Internet Architectures

• Theo Schlossnagle
• Thu, 05 November 2009 14:00
• No Materials Available

We will dive deep into traditional web architectures and discuss what makes them go. Looking at real-life architectures, we’ll analyze weak points and discuss what will happen to them under the intense pressure of prolonged exposure on Digg, NYTimes or even MSN (when traffic can jump from 15Mbits/second to over 1Gbit/second inside 30 seconds). In a friendly atmosphere, you'll get to enjoy a mix of anecdotes, war stories, good and bad design principles and more tips and tricks than you could use in a year. Topics will include the importance of visualizing data, web protocols (HTTP/HTTPS) and browser behavior, firewalls and load balancers, HTTP requests, sizes, pipelining and what that means in packets, remedial queue theory and why apps just “stop working", solid caching techniques for correctness and performance, scary caching techniques for emergencies, techniques for service isolation (quality of service protection), databases, caching and their torrid love affair, and service queues, how they work and why they usually don’t!