You can get a good view on some architectures from AOSA, thought it may not be as focused on web as you're looking for:
http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
A good example is Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems by Kate Matsudaira:
http://aosabook.org/en/index.html
A good example is Scalable Web Architecture and Distributed Systems by Kate Matsudaira:
At what level of scale might one expect to need what's going on in the "Edge Cluster", as opposed letting all the requests fly right into the app servers?