The Art of Capacity Planning: Being Ready for the Big Growth Spurt - Softcover

Allspaw, John

 
9780596518578: The Art of Capacity Planning: Being Ready for the Big Growth Spurt
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0596518579 ISBN 13: 9780596518578
Publisher: O′Reilly, 2008

Synopsis

Success on the web is measured by usage and growth. Web-based companies live or die by the ability to scale their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand. This book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure.

The Art of Capacity Planning is written by the manager of data operations for the world-famous photo-sharing site Flickr.com, now owned by Yahoo! John Allspaw combines personal anecdotes from many phases of Flickr's growth with insights from his colleagues in many other industries to give you solid guidelines for measuring your growth, predicting trends, and making cost-effective preparations.

Topics include:

  • Evaluating tools for measurement and deployment
  • Capacity analysis and prediction for storage, database, and application servers
  • Designing architectures to easily add and measure capacity
  • Handling sudden spikes
  • Predicting exponential and explosive growth
  • How cloud services such as EC2 can fit into a capacity strategy

In this book, Allspaw draws on years of valuable experience, starting from the days when Flickr was relatively small and had to deal with the typical growth pains and cost/performance trade-offs of a typical company with a Web presence. The advice he offers in The Art of Capacity Planning will not only help you prepare for explosive growth, it will save you tons of grief.

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About the Author

John Allspaw, currently Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr, has extensive experience working with websites that have grown exponentially, including Salon.com, InfoWorld.com, Macworld.com, Friendster, and Flickr. At Friendster, he was responsible for their transition from a couple of dozen servers in a failing data center to over 400 machines across two data centers, and the complete redesign of the backing infrastructure.

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Publisher
O′Reilly
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0596518579
ISBN 13 
9780596518578
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
135