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The Art of Capacity Planning: Scaling Web Resources View Larger Image | John Allspaw
O'Reilly Media, Paperback, Published September 2008, 192 pages, ISBN 0596518579 | List Price: $44.99
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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.
About the Author
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 ten 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 US government.
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