Guerrilla Capacity Planning A Tactical Approach to Planning for Highly Scalable Applications and Services /

• Main Author: Gunther, Neil J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer software > Reusability.; Computer system failures.; Software engineering.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; System Performance and Evaluation.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Performance and Reliability.; Software Engineering.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.

In these days of shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are often seen by management as tending to inflate their production schedules. Rather than giving up in the face of this kind of relentless pressure to get things done fast...

Table of Contents:

• What Is Guerrilla Capacity Planning?
• ITIL for Guerrillas
• Damaging Digits in Capacity Calculations
• Scalability—A Quantitative Approach
• Evaluating Scalability Parameters
• Software Scalability
• Fundamentals of Virtualization
• Web Site Planning
• Gargantuan Computing—GRIDs and P2P
• Internet Planning
• Going Guerrilla—A Case Study.