Success at Scale Heads to the Printer — Final Week of Pre-Sale Pricing
Addy Osmani's latest book, Success at Scale, has officially gone to the printer. That means shipments are imminent — and so is a price increase. Readers who want the book at its pre-sale price have until March 11, 2024 to lock in their copy.
A Curated Look at Production-Scale Engineering
Success at Scale is a collection of best-practice case studies drawn from production sites of varying sizes. The book captures how engineering teams approach performance, accessibility, capabilities, and developer experience when operating at scale. Contributors come from teams at Instagram, Shopify, Netflix, eBay, Figma, Spotify, Wix, Lyft, and LinkedIn, among others.
Osmani curates the volume and provides a nuanced view of each topic, with tips and tricks readers can apply to their own projects. The book also includes short interviews with contributors, conducted some time after their case studies were written, offering additional lessons, challenges, and tips.
The book is organized around four themes:
- Performance covers measuring, budgeting, optimizing, and monitoring performance, plus advice on building a durable performance culture.
- Capabilities explores closing the gap between native capabilities and the modern web, looking at web apps, native apps, and progressive web applications.
- Accessibility addresses making web apps viable for diverse users, including those with temporary or permanent disabilities, showing how to make the web work for everyone.
- Developer Experience focuses on building a project environment and culture that supports growth, problem-solving, and strong team collaboration.
What Readers Are Saying
“This book reveals in its pages the collective wisdom of frontend engineers working on global web projects. It’s the perfect way to enhance your web applications’ potential by optimizing performance with practical tips straight from the trenches.”
Luca Mezzalira, Principal Serverless Specialist Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and O'Reilly author
Success at Scale, masterfully curated by Addy Osmani, serves as an invaluable compass for the aspiring developers navigating the complex waters of web development. It's more than a book; it's a transmission of wisdom, guiding junior developers towards the shores of big tech companies. With its in-depth case studies and focus on performance, capabilities, accessibility, and developer experience, it prepares the next generation of tech talent to not just participate in, but to shape the future of digital innovation.”
Jerome Hardaway, Engineering AI products at Microsoft
A Smaller Print Run, A Larger PDF
Smashing is trying something new with Success at Scale to conserve resources. The printed book will be 304 pages, and everyone who purchases a print copy will also receive an expanded PDF version. The approach accomplishes a few goals:
- Using less paper and materials by producing a smaller printed book.
- Using fewer resources overall to print, ship, and store books, reducing the carbon footprint.
- Keeping the book at a manageable size, which allows Smashing to continue offering free shipping on all orders.
Smashing Books have always been printed using materials from FSC Certified forests, and the publisher is committed to finding new ways to conserve resources while maintaining quality.
