The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources

DIVpSuccess 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.brbrIThe Art of Capacity Planning/I 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.brbr Topics include:brbr/pulliEvaluating tools for measurement and deployment/li liCapacity analysis and prediction for storage, database, and application servers/li liDesigning architectures to easily add and measure capacity/li liHandling sudden spikes/li liPredicting exponential and explosive growth/li liHow cloud services such as EC2 can fit into a capacity strategy/li /ulpIn 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 IThe Art of Capacity Planning/I will not only help you prepare for explosive growth, it will save you tons of grief./p/div