{"product_id":"9781430236818","title":"Practical Load Balancing: Ride the Performance Tiger","description":"\u003cp\u003e    The emergence of the cloud and modern, fast corporate networks demands that you perform judicious balancing of computational loads. \u003cem\u003ePractical Load Balancing\u003c\/em\u003e presents an entire analytical framework to increase performance not just of one machine, but of your entire infrastructure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003cem\u003ePractical Load Balancing\u003c\/em\u003e starts by introducing key concepts and the tools you'll need to tackle your load-balancing issues. You'll travel through the IP layers and learn how they can create increased network traffic for you. You'll see how to account for persistence and state, and how you can judge the performance of scheduling algorithms. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  You'll then learn how to avoid performance degradation and any risk of the sudden disappearance of a service on a server. If you're concerned with running your load balancer for an entire network, you'll find out how to set up your network topography, and condense each topographical variety into recipes that will serve you in different situations. You'll also learn about individual servers, and load balancers that can perform cookie insertion or improve your SSL throughput. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  You'll also explore load balancing in the modern context of the cloud. While load balancers need to be configured for high availability once the conditions on the network have been created, modern load balancing has found its way into the cloud, where good balancing is vital for the very functioning of the cloud, and where IPv6 is becoming ever more important.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  You can read \u003cem\u003ePractical Load Balancing\u003c\/em\u003e from end to end or out of sequence, and indeed, if there are individual topics that interest you, you can pick up this book and work through it once you have read the first three chapters.        \u003c\/p\u003e    What you’ll learn\u003cul\u003e   \u003cli\u003eJudge network load balancing algorithms and when to use them \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003ePlan your network for optimal load balancing performance \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eConfigure single servers to take advantage of modern load balancing software \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eLearning to use load balancing software like HAproxy, STunnel etc. \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eBecome familiar with implications of IPv6 and the cloud \u003c\/li\u003e   \u003cli\u003eImprove SSL throughput and seamless application cookie insertion \u003c\/li\u003e  \u003c\/ul\u003e  Who this book is for      \u003cp\u003e     Network engineers, developers and IT managers.         \u003c\/p\u003e     Table of Contents\u003cp\u003e  Part I: Getting Started\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  1. Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  2. How websites work: what makes them slow \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  3. Content Caching: keeping the load light\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  4. DNS based load balancing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  5. Content Delivery Networks\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  6. Planning for Performance and Reliability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Part II: Load Balancing Essentials  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  7. Essential concepts you need to know \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  8. HTTP load balancing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  9. Database load balancing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  10. Load balancing your network connection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  11. SSL Load Balancing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Part III: Load balancing situations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  12. Clustering the Load Balancers for High Availability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  13. Load balancing in the cloud\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  14. IPv6: Implications and concepts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  15. Where to go next...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Appendix 1: Common Terms and Concepts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Apress","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141946720496,"sku":"9781430236818","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781430236818_p0.jpg?v=1763749772","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781430236818","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}