The art of capacity planningArun Kejariwal
The art of capacity planning
by Arun Kejariwal · first published 2018
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In their early days, Twitter, Flickr, Etsy, and many other companies experienced sudden spikes in activity that took their web services down in minutes. Today, determining how much capacity you need for handling traffic surges is still a common frustration of operations engineers and software developers. This hands-on guide provides the knowledge and tools you need to measure, deploy, and manage your web application infrastructure before you experience explosive growth.
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…visits to the site. There's no substitute for real traffic, but simulation can do in a pinch. Likewise there's no substitute for simulation, but capacity planning tools can do in a pinch. Look at The Art of Capacity Planning, The Art of Application Performance Testing and Guerilla Capacity Planning. 2. There are many tools, some quite sophisticated. Look at siege, httperf and others like them. Consider also using automatic…
on “12,000 Requests per second with Nginx, PHP and Memcached” ↗Just finished in the last week: - What a wonderful world by Marcus Chown - 47 Ronin by Joan D. Vinge - Practical Monitoring by Mike Julian Currently reading: - The Four by Scott Galloway - The Art of Capacity Planning 2nd Edition by Arun Kejariwal, John Allspaw
on “Ask HN: What books are you currently reading?” ↗Can anyone speak to how close these books come to this? Or recommend other books? Building Scalable Web Sites http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102357 The Art of Capacity Planning http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596518585 Web Operations http://oreilly.com/catalog/0636920000136
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