are there books on designing highly scalable web sites?

Question

are there books on designing highly scalable web sites?

(from a programmers perspective)

I read how ebay does it:

Partition by Function, Split Horizontally, Avoid Distributed Transactions, Decouple Functions Asynchronously, Move Processing To Asynchronous Flows, Virtualize At All Levels, Cache Appropriately.

Are these things actually taught or it is so niche that there isn't really any books on these topics?

Answer 1

Building Scalable Web Sites has a good reputation.

Answer 2

Not sure on books but heres a good reference for Building highly scalable applications

Answer 3

The best I've found is

Scalable Internet Architectures

Answer 4

Web-servers are stateless, web-application are statefull -- this leads to dependance on a data-layer to persist state. Relational databases are often the weakness to hard-core scaleability. For this reason I suggest looking at the research papers and presentations from the nosql community.

Nosql databases provide plug&play expansion, and require programming changes from the web-applications, therefore you will learn a lot about scalability from the material.

You will enough material by scholar.google.com'ing the names of the nosql databases.