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Re: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

#21
Thanks! This is perfectly timed. I'm looking forward to it. I signed up immediately.

However, it looks like your mailchimp account is setup to link to phpscalingbook.com (which is the wrong domain). I clicked on the "continue to website" link after confirming.

Re: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

#22

Sounds awesome; using my favorite php stack too :) Would be nice to see a preview of different bits of the book when written as well.

I'll be pushing it to leanpub soon, so there will be an opportunity to check it out and get beta editions.

Re: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

#23

Thanks! This is perfectly timed. I'm looking forward to it. I signed up immediately. However, it looks like your mailchimp account is setup to link to phpscalingbook.com (which is the wrong domain). I clicked on the "continue to website" link after confirming.

Thanks for letting me know, I fixed it!

Re: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

#24
post #8

Good to know other people want to share about successful scaling with PHP. On the downside, I have a book cooking on the same exact subject, with release planned September (self-publish, about 80% done), but now not sure if it's worth continuing. [edit]Slight moment of "panic", as seeing someone else releasing a book on the same subject made me sad, but you're right, no reason not to continue.

Absolutely, positively, finish & publish your book. Feel free to shoot me an email, there is a contact link on my blog, http://stevecorona.com/

Re: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

#25
In what formats will this book be available? When I see a new self-published book, I assume it will be available digitally. Your site (which is really well-designed) mentions nothing of the format.

Either way, I would like to see images of what the product will look like. For someone like me who doesn't need this book but is still interested in its topic, images of a well-designed book might make the difference in whether or not I purchase it.

Re: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

#26

Thanks! This is perfectly timed. I'm looking forward to it. I signed up immediately. However, it looks like your mailchimp account is setup to link to phpscalingbook.com (which is the wrong domain). I clicked on the "continue to website" link after confirming.

Thanks for letting me know, I fixed it!

Much appreciated. Good luck to you! Looking forward to the book.

Re: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

#27
post #8

Good to know other people want to share about successful scaling with PHP. On the downside, I have a book cooking on the same exact subject, with release planned September (self-publish, about 80% done), but now not sure if it's worth continuing. [edit]Slight moment of "panic", as seeing someone else releasing a book on the same subject made me sad, but you're right, no reason not to continue.

Yes, please do not forgo the completion of your book. I would love to hear about it once available as well. I have never had the chance to work in an environment where scaling PHP was necessary, and I am trying to gain all of the knowledge I possibly can on the subject so that I can take on bigger projects.

Re: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

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post #25

In what formats will this book be available? When I see a new self-published book, I assume it will be available digitally. Your site (which is really well-designed) mentions nothing of the format. Either way, I would like to see images of what the product will look like. For someone like me who doesn't need this book but is still interested in its topic, images of a well-designed book might make the difference in wh…

Thanks for the feedback- all really good points. As the month goes on, I'll have some pictures of the cover-art and chapter list available.

It will be self-published, DRM-free in PDF, mobi, epub. Looking into what it takes to publish on the Amazon Store/Kindle/iBooks, but hopefully that's something I can figure out after launching.

Re: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

#29
post #8

Good to know other people want to share about successful scaling with PHP. On the downside, I have a book cooking on the same exact subject, with release planned September (self-publish, about 80% done), but now not sure if it's worth continuing. [edit]Slight moment of "panic", as seeing someone else releasing a book on the same subject made me sad, but you're right, no reason not to continue.

>Good to know other people want to share about successful scaling with PHP.Absolutely. And it is an important enough topic to warrant the purchase of two books from my perspective.

Re: Scaling PHP Book: I will teach you to scale PHP to millions of users

#30
My understanding is that no one finds it hard in a purely technical sense to scale the pure page-serving portion of your website, whether it's PHP, Rails, Lift, etc., because you can always throw up another caching layer or another box to serve pages. The hard part is scaling access to your underling data, which heavily depends on your exact use case.
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