The art of capacity planning being ready for the big growth spurt
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...
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Sebastopol, Calif.
O'Reilly Media
2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- The Art of Capacity Planning; Focus and Topics; Audience for This Book; Organization of the Material; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; We & d Like to Hear from You; Safari® Books Online; Acknowledgments; 1. Goals, Issues, and Processes in Capacity Planning; Predicting When Your Systems Will Fail; Make Your System Stats Tell Stories; Buying Stuff: Procurement Is a Process; Performance and Capacity: Two Different Animals; The Effects of Social Websites and Open APIs; 2. Setting Goals for Capacity; Service Level Agreements; Business Capacity Requirements; User Expectations
- Architecture DecisionsProviding Scaling Points; Hardware Decisions (Vertical, Horizontal, and Diagonal Scaling); Disaster Recovery; 3. Measurement: Units of Capacity; Round-Robin Database and RRDTool; Ganglia; SNMP; Treating Logs As Past Metrics; Monitoring As a Tool for Urgent Problem Identification; Network Measurement and Planning; Load Balancing; Applications of Monitoring; Storage Capacity; A real-world example: Tracking stora