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The Art of Capacity Planning

Scaling Web Resources

By
John Allspaw
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Released:
September 2008
Pages:
160
Description
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. Written by the manager of data operations for the world-famous photo-sharing site Flickr.com, the author offers advice based on years of valuable experience.
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Table of Contents

  1. Chapter 1 Goals, Issues, and Processes in Capacity Planning

    1. Quick and Dirty Math

    2. Predicting When Your Systems Will Fail

    3. Make Your System Stats Tell Stories

    4. Buying Stuff: Procurement Is a Process

    5. Performance and Capacity: Two Different Animals

    6. The Effects of Social Websites and Open APIs

  2. Chapter 2 Setting Goals for Capacity

    1. Different Kinds of Requirements and Measurements

    2. Architecture Decisions

  3. Chapter 3 Measurement: Units of Capacity

    1. Aspects of Capacity Tracking Tools

    2. Applications of Monitoring

    3. API Usage and Its Effect on Capacity

    4. Examples and Reality

    5. Summary

  4. Chapter 4 Predicting Trends

    1. Riding Your Waves

    2. Procurement

    3. The Effects of Increasing Capacity

    4. Long-Term Trends

    5. Iteration and Calibration

    6. Summary

  5. Chapter 5 Deployment

    1. Automated Deployment Philosophies

    2. Automated Installation Tools

    3. Automated Configuration

    4. Summary

  1. Appendix Virtualization and Cloud Computing

    1. Virtualization

    2. Cloud Computing

    3. Summary

  2. Appendix Dealing with Instantaneous Growth

    1. Mitigating Failure

    2. Handling Outages

  3. Appendix Capacity Tools

    1. Monitoring

    2. Deployment Tools

  4. COLOPHON

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Product Details
Title:
The Art of Capacity Planning
By:
John Allspaw
Publisher:
O'Reilly Media
Formats:
  • Print
  • Ebook
  • Safari Books Online
Print Release:
September 2008
Ebook Release:
February 2009
Pages:
160
Print ISBN:
978-0-596-51857-8
| ISBN 10:
0-596-51857-9
Ebook ISBN:
978-0-596-10311-8
| ISBN 10:
0-596-10311-5
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About the Author

  1. John Allspaw

    John Allspaw is currently Operations Engineering Manager at Flickr, the popular photo site. He has had extensive experience working with growing web sites since 1999. These include online news magazines (Salon.com, InfoWorld.com, Macworld.com) and social networking sites that experienced extreme growth (Friendster and Flickr). During his time at Friendster, traffic increased 5X. He was responsible for their transition from a couple dozen servers in a failing data center to over 400 machines across two data centers, and the complete redesign of the backing infrastructure. When he joined Flickr, they had 10 servers in a tiny data center in Vancouver; they are now located in multiple data centers across the US. Prior to his web experience, Allspaw worked in modeling and simulation as a mechanical engineer doing car crash simulations for the NHTSA.

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