Guerrilla Capacity Planning (eBook)

A Tactical Approach to Planning for Highly Scalable Applications and Services

Neil J. Gunther (Autor)

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2007 | 2007
XX, 253 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-31010-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Under today's shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are seen by management as inflating production schedules. In the face of relentless pressure to get things done faster, this book facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements, based on opportunistic use of available performance data and tools so that management insight is expanded but production schedules are not. The book introduces such concepts as an iterative cycle of improvement called 'The Wheel of Capacity Planning,' and Virtual Load Testing, which provides a highly cost-effective method for assessing application scalability.

Neil J. Gunther, M.Sc., Ph.D., SMIEEE, is an internationally recognized IT researcher and computer performance analyst who founded Performance Dynamics Company (www.perfdynamics.com) in 1994. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, he has resided near Silicon Valley in California since 1980. In that time Dr. Gunther has held teaching positions at California State University-Hayward and San Jose University, as well as research and management positions at Xerox PARC, Pyramid/Siemens Technology, and JPL/NASA where he worked on the Voyager and Galileo missions. His 'Guerrilla Capacity Planning' classes have been presented at such organizations as America Online (AOL), Boeing, FedEx, Motorola, Nokia, Stanford University, Sun Microsystems and UCLA. In 1996, Dr.

Gunther was awarded Best Technical Paper at the Computer Measurement Group international conference (CMG'96) and at CMG'08 he received the prestigious A.A. Michelson Award---the industry's highest honor for computer performance analysis and capacity planning. Dr. Gunther is also a member of AMS, APS, ACM and SPIE. More details can be found on his Wiki page.

Inhalt

Preface 6
Contents 11
1 What Is Guerrilla Capacity Planning? 18
2 ITIL for Guerrillas 34
3 Damaging Digits in Capacity Calculations 44
4 Scalability—A Quantitative Approach 58
5 Evaluating Scalability Parameters 87
6 Software Scalability 112
7 Fundamentals of Virtualization 132
8 Web Site Planning 158
9 Gargantuan Computing—GRIDs and P2P 179
10 Internet Planning 192
11 Going Guerrilla—A Case Study 211
Appendices 224
Amdahl and the Repairman 224
Mathematica Evaluation of NUMA Parameters 230
Abbreviations and Units 234
Programs for Chapter 3 236
Programs for Chapter 8 240
The Guerrilla Manual 246
Bibliography 254
Index 260
Colophon 263

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.1.2007
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 253 p. 108 illus.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Software Entwicklung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Schlagworte: Capacity Planning • Internet • ITIL • Load Testing • Management • Meeting • Meetings • Performance • Performance Analysis • Planning • Risk Management • Scala • Software • System Scalability • Website Planning
• ISBN-10: 3-540-31010-X / 354031010X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-31010-5 / 9783540310105