Internet & Web Culture eBooks

Hands-on recipes to improve your website's load speed and overall user experience with Varnish Cache Overview Learn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results. Connect and health-check application servers with Varnish Cache. Load balance requests across clustered servers. Define caching policies and request/response workflow. In Detail When you're doing business on the Web, every second counts. 80 percent of the end user response time is spent on downloading content to the browser, and Varnish Cache is here to help you solve this problem in a simple and effective way. "Varnish Cache How-to" is a practical, hands-on guide that will take you from beginner to advanced, improving your website speed...

Over 100 recipes to make Apache Solr faster, more reliable, and return better results Overview Learn how to make Apache Solr search faster, more complete, and comprehensively scalable. Solve performance, setup, configuration, analysis, and query problems in no time. Get to grips with, and master, the new exciting features of Apache Solr 4. In Detail Apache Solr is a blazing fast, scalable, open source Enterprise search server built upon Apache Lucene. Solr is wildly popular because it supports complex search criteria, faceting, result highlighting, query-completion, query spell-checking, and relevancy tuning, amongst other numerous features. "Apache Solr 4 Cookbook" will show you how to get the most out of your search engine. Full of prac...

Cloud services are just as susceptible to network outages as any other platform. This concise book shows you how to prepare for potentially devastating interruptions by building your own resilient and reliable applications in the public cloud. Guided by engineers from 9appsan independent provider of Amazon Web Services and Eucalyptus cloud solutionsyou'll learn how to combine AWS with open source tools such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis.This isn't a book on theory. With detailed examples, sample scripts, and solid advice, software engineers with operations experience will learn specific techniques that 9apps routinely uses in its cloud infrastructures.Build cloud applications with the "rip, mix, and burn" approach Get a crash course on ...

If you're comfortable with jQuery but a bit shaky with JavaScript, this concise guide will help you expand your knowledge of the languageespecially the code that jQuery covers up for you. Many jQuery devotees write as little code as possible, but with some JavaScript under your belt, you can prevent errors, reduce overhead, and make your application code more efficient.This book explores event handling, prototypes, and working with the DOM and AJAX through examples and lots of code. You'll learn common conventions and patterns in JavaScript andif you've never coded with JavaScript beforea tutorial will take you through the basics.Enhance your jQuery code by using object constructors and prototypes Reduce overhead and gain more control by handling eve...