The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources 1st Edition

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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, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure.

The Art of Capacity Planning 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.

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
How cloud services such as EC2 can fit into a capacity strategy

In 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 The Art of Capacity Planning will not only help you prepare for explosive growth, it will save you tons of grief.

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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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Paperback: 156 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (October 3, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596518579
ISBN-13: 978-0596518578
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches
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A classical treatise about capacity planning

ByRaghu Mysoreon March 19, 2011

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John Allspaw's book is a classical treatise about capacity planning. It is a valuable asset to all web services professionals. John's lucid style of coupling statistical concepts to the capacity planning (and prediction) practice makes the book very special. The book is methodically organized, in that it takes the reader gradually from a generic view of a capacity planning project to the specifics of the measurement, monitoring and forecasting of web traffic. The book also has a valuable source of information about various statistical tools that help in analysis, design and upgrading of the capacity of web sites. The author's awesome presentation (using mathematical statistics) of all the steps involved (a) in the measurement of current traffic metrics and (b) in forecasting the capacity of a web site, deserves a special word of praise. In summary, I would recommend this book to all professionals involved in the building and maintenance of the web infrastructure, for a business.

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great book on capacity planning for a web service

Bychristinaon October 29, 2015

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I normally cannot read through instructional books but this one was easy to read and follow. This gives you a great basic knowledge of how to approach capacity planning for a web service. I have read it at least 3 times at this point and continue to reference it often.

The one disappointing thing was that I was unable to figure out how to access the code online, but honestly you do not need it. Just would have been nice to see it.

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It really gives a high overview on what you need ...

ByDavid Heiseron July 24, 2015

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It really gives a high overview on what you need think about and plan so that your prepared on how to tackle any situation when it comes to capacity planning.

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From Scalible to progression planning

ByMichael R. Schenckon February 23, 2010

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This book is fantastic! It's a very easy read, keeps you engaged and is full of excellent advise for all stages. Architectural planning, monitoring, trending, and utilizing public clouds for your occasional peak cycles.

I can't recommend this enough, my team at work is now reading this and our conversations have changed for the better.

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Five Stars

ByMauricio Bermudezon September 18, 2015

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a must for anyone in capacity

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Good introduction to Capacity Planning for Web Operations

BySanket M. Naikon March 16, 2009

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The Art of Capacity Planning is a good introduction to Capacity Planning for Web Operations that touches on the following topics:
* Why do you need capacity planning?
* What information should you gather for capacity planning and how?
* How to predict trends for your web applications?
* How and when to procure new hardware?
* How to create a sustainable capacity planning process?

As the author mentions in the preface, the book has a lot of common sense material. Most experienced enterprise web operations architects should be familiar with this material. But, it is refreshing to see this urban wisdom captured and printed in a book format. The book is unique in that it is not meticulously organized and illustrated like a text book or a reference guide. It provides a smattering of anecdotes, examples, gotchas, and tools from the author's experience in a rapidly growing start up environment at Flickr.

I am looking forward to a second edition of the book where the author can delve deeper into some missing aspects that are critical to capacity planning like log analysis and performance improvements. Enterprise web operations folks who are familiar with commercial tools like Sitescope, OpenView, Opsware, Gomez, etc. rather than free/open source tools and who manage a large number of diverse applications might have a learning curve to relate the examples in the book to their environment.

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John's examples are just like Charlie's from the TV show Numb3rs

ByMark Ruzomberkaon March 13, 2009

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This is the first book on capacity planning I have read so I have nothing substantial to compare it too at this time. John's descriptions and real world examples are great.

While I was reading I felt John's analogies were very similar to the way the character Charlie from TV's "Numb3rs" explains something very complicated with a real world examples. I liked the examples of the Bacon Delivery truck and the Super-market checkout especially to visualize what was going on in the process of the servers.

One huge take away was the level of importance tying application metrics and server metrics back to financial costs. SLA's don't really matter if the cost of adding another 9 to the 99.999's type model is more expensive than your client is paying you for the whole contract. In essence don't promise 99.9% over 99.0 percent if the .9 improvement will cost $10,000 in additional hardware and the contract is only worth $10,000. Many would argue but it is only a 9/10ths of a percent improvement how big of a deal can it be? Remember the first 1% of keeping up a server is not the same as the last 1%.

The chapter on regression and line fitting was mostly a refresher. The chapters on cloud computing were excellent as real world examples are always useful for me. I also liked the fact he referred to flickr a lot, so there was a sense of walking the path vs. knowing the path.

Some co-workers did joke that they must not know what they are doing because the seats are all empty on the cover. I'd be curious to see if the same book sold better with the same cover and seats filled. Other comments criticize the book for being only 150 pages but I would rather have 150 good pages than 300 bad pages any day of the week. Also the author explains the smallish size in the preface.

All in all a great quick read that cut to the details and made me feel more confident I could bridge the gap between business and IT in a short amount of time.

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Good introduction to Capacity Planning for Web Operations

The Art of Capacity Planning is a good introduction to Capacity Planning for Web Operations that touches on the following topics:
* Why do you need capacity planning?Read more

Published on January 16, 2010 by Sanket M. Naik

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Great content. The size of the print is so small it distracts from reading the text. [...] you should be able to read the damn book easily.Read more

Published on August 30, 2009 by The Corfu

Great Overview of Capacity Planning

John Allspaw brings a great deal of his experience with Flickr to this book and that makes it a five-star read in my view.Read more

Published on November 18, 2008 by Michael J. Wurzer

An Approachable Treatment of a Complex Subject

The "Art" is an approachable treatment of a complex field of operations: capacity planning for high-traffic websites.Read more

Published on October 20, 2008 by Federico Lucifredi

Lucid and smart

I found Allspaw's book intelligent, easy to grasp and full of interesting bits of wisdom, gleaned from his experience at Flickr.Read more

Published on October 18, 2008 by Martin Milbank

Chock full o' takeaways

Right out of the gate, John covers a topic near and dear to my heart: metrics. His advice? "Measure, measure, measure."Read more

Published on October 17, 2008 by Steve Souders

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