The Kindle version has been available for several weeks and now the paperback version is available for purchase at InformIT. The paperback version can also be pre-ordered from these online book stores:
If you do pick up a copy please write a review on one (or all) of the above sites and pass along a comment to your friends and colleagues.
Our book is still on track for an early to mid January 2010 hard launch. We have completed roughly 1/3d of the copy editing process, having gone through the final round of editing on 11 chapters so far. The book is available for pre-order at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Borders. You can also pre-order the book from the publisher, Addison-Wesley as well as get early web-access or pdf access to the pre-copy edited book.
Fish and I are discussing different options for signing books that clients and readers of our blog and newsletter purchase. If you are interested, simply comment/respond to this post and we’ll work on logistics.
Well it’s not actually coming soon but it is in the works. We’re very excited that we’ve just signed a book deal with Prentice-Hall for a book covering all aspects of scalability. The working title is The Art of Scalability – Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise. Prentice-Hall is a Pearson Education company and the nation’s leading educational publisher. Together with another Pearson company, Addison-Wesley, they have published some of the classics including The Art of Computer Programming, The C Programming Language, The C++ Programming Language, The Mythical Man-Month, and Design Patterns. We are very pleased to be working with this excellent team.
We have been considering putting together a book for some time and even started the process over a year ago but things got very busy and we put the idea on the backburner. Having written dozens of articles over the past year we decided it was time to revitalize the idea. We were fortunate enough to get the attention of couple publishers and ultimately it worked out for us to partner with Prentice-Hall on this project.
We know there are other scalability books out there but none of them deal with the entirety of the problem. If you are familiar with our methodology you already know that we think scaling a service or application is dependent on much more than just technology. We approach scalability from three perspectives and as with the over used stool analogy, if one of the three legs is missing or defective the stool isn’t stable and neither is the application. The three must have “legs” for scalability are people, process, and technology. The Art of Scalability will teach engineers, architects, managers, and executives how to solve technology scalability problems through changes in their architecture, processes, and organization structure.
One of the very neat things that Prentice-Hall has setup is an online review system that allows anyone interested to get a sneak preview of the book as it is being written and it allows anyone interested in acting as part of our editorial staff to provide feedback before the book is published. We’ll give you more information about this process as we get started. We also plan to use our forum and this blog to keep everyone updated on our progress, so check back often or subscribe to it through your RSS reader.