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,‎ as it discusses the many techniques and considerations needed to plan‎,‎ deploy‎,‎ and manage infrastructure for a growing web application‎.‎ ‎'‎The Art of Capacity Planning‎'‎ is written by the manager of data operations for the world‎-famous photo‎-sharing site Flickr‎.‎com ‎(‎owned by Yahoo‎!‎‎)‎‎.‎John Allspaw draws on years of 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.‎ He 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.‎ The 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;‎ and How cloud services such as EC2 can fit into a capacity strategy‎.‎

• Category Type‎:‎ Graphics & Animation
• Author‎:‎ John Allspaw
• ISBN‎:‎ 9780596518578
• Binding‎:‎ Paperback
• Book Language‎:‎ English
• Publisher‎:‎ O‎'‎Reilly
• Number of Pages‎:‎ 192 pages
• Dimensions‎:‎ 23.27 x 17.93 x 1.24 cm
• Publication Year‎:‎ 2008
• Product Weight‎:‎ 0.32 kg
• Book Origin‎:‎ United States