Preface;
Audience;
Why This Book Exists;
Assumptions This Book Makes;
Contents of This Book;
Building Page of Photos on Windows Azure;
Terminology;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Scalability Primer;
1.1 Scalability Defined;
1.2 Resource Contention Limits Scalability;
1.3 Scalability is a Business Concern;
1.4 The Cloud-Native Application;
1.5 Summary;
Chapter 2: Horizontally Scaling Compute Pattern;
2.1 Context;
2.2 Impact;
2.3 Mechanics;
2.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
2.5 Summary;
Chapter 3: Queue-Centric Workflow Pattern;
3.1 Context;
3.2 Impact;
3.3 Mechanics;
3.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
3.5 Summary;
Chapter 4: Auto-Scaling Pattern;
4.1 Context;
4.2 Impact;
4.3 Mechanics;
4.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
4.5 Summary;
Chapter 5: Eventual Consistency Primer;
5.1 CAP Theorem and Eventual Consistency;
5.2 Eventual Consistency Examples;
5.3 Relational ACID and NoSQL BASE;
5.4 Impact of Eventual Consistency on Application Logic;
5.5 Summary;
Chapter 6: MapReduce Pattern;
6.1 Context;
6.2 Impact;
6.3 Mechanics;
6.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
6.5 Summary;
Chapter 7: Database Sharding Pattern;
7.1 Context;
7.2 Impact;
7.3 Mechanics;
7.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
7.5 Summary;
Chapter 8: Multitenancy and Commodity Hardware Primer;
8.1 Multitenancy;
8.2 Commodity Hardware;
8.3 Summary;
Chapter 9: Busy Signal Pattern;
9.1 Context;
9.2 Impact;
9.3 Mechanics;
9.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
9.5 Summary;
Chapter 10: Node Failure Pattern;
10.1 Context;
10.2 Impact;
10.3 Mechanics;
10.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
10.5 Summary;
Chapter 11: Network Latency Primer;
11.1 Network Latency Challenges;
11.2 Reducing Perceived Network Latency;
11.3 Reducing Network Latency;
11.4 Summary;
Chapter 12: Colocate Pattern;
12.1 Context;
12.2 Impact;
12.3 Mechanics;
12.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
12.5 Summary;
Chapter 13: Valet Key Pattern;
13.1 Context;
13.2 Impact;
13.3 Mechanics;
13.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
13.5 Summary;
Chapter 14: CDN Pattern;
14.1 Context;
14.2 Impact;
14.3 Mechanics;
14.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
14.5 Summary;
Chapter 15: Multisite Deployment Pattern;
15.1 Context;
15.2 Impact;
15.3 Mechanics;
15.4 Example: Building PoP on Windows Azure;
15.5 Summary;
Further Reading;
Page of Photos (PoP) Sample;
Resources From Preface and Chapters;