Art of Scalability, The: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise - Softcover

Abbott, Martin; Fisher, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0134032802 ISBN 13: 9780134032801

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, 2015

Synopsis

The Comprehensive, Proven Approach to IT Scalability–Updated with New Strategies, Technologies, and Case Studies

 

In The Art of Scalability, Second Edition, leading scalability consultants Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher cover everything you need to know to smoothly scale products and services for any requirement. This extensively revised edition reflects new technologies, strategies, and lessons, as well as new case studies from the authors’ pioneering consulting practice, AKF Partners.

 

Writing for technical and nontechnical decision-makers, Abbott and Fisher cover everything that impacts scalability, including architecture, process, people, organization, and technology. Their insights and recommendations reflect more than thirty years of experience at companies ranging from eBay to Visa, and Salesforce.com to Apple.

 

You’ll find updated strategies for structuring organizations to maximize agility and scalability, as well as new insights into the cloud (IaaS/PaaS) transition, NoSQL, DevOps, business metrics, and more. Using this guide’s tools and advice, you can systematically clear away obstacles to scalability–and achieve unprecedented IT and business performance.

 

Coverage includes

· Why scalability problems start with organizations and people, not technology, and what to do about it

· Actionable lessons from real successes and failures

· Staffing, structuring, and leading the agile, scalable organization

· Scaling processes for hyper-growth environments

· Architecting scalability: proprietary models for clarifying needs and making choices–including 15 key success principles

· Emerging technologies and challenges: data cost, datacenter planning, cloud evolution, and customer-aligned monitoring

· Measuring availability, capacity, load, and performance

About this title

From the Back Cover

A Comprehensive, Proven Approach to IT Scalability from Two Veteran Software, Technology, and Business Executives In "The Art of Scalability, " AKF Partners cofounders Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher cover everything IT and business leaders must know to build technology infrastructures that can scale smoothly to meet any business requirement. Drawing on their unparalleled experience managing some of the world's highest-transaction-volume Web sites, the authors provide detailed models and best-practice approaches available in no other book. Unlike previous books on scalability, "The Art of Scalability" doesn't limit its coverage to technology. Writing for both technical and nontechnical decision-makers, this book covers everything that impacts scalability, including architecture, processes, people, and organizations. Throughout, the authors address a broad spectrum of real-world challenges, from performance testing to IT governance. Using their tools and guidance, organizations can systematically overcome obstacles to scalability and achieve unprecedented levels of technical and business performance. Coverage includesStaffing the scalable organization: essential organizational, management, and leadership skills for technical leadersBuilding processes for scale: process lessons from hyper-growth companies, from technical issue resolution to crisis managementMaking better "build versus buy" decisionsArchitecting scalable solutions: powerful proprietary models for identifying scalability needs and choosing the best approaches to meet themOptimizing performance through caching, application and database splitting, and asynchronous designScalability techniques for emerging technologies, including clouds and gridsPlanning for rapid data growth and new data centersEvolving monitoring strategies to tightly align with customer requirements

About the Author

Martin L. Abbott is a founding partner at the growth and scalability advisory firm AKF Partners. He was formerly chief operations officer at Quigo, an advertising technology startup sold to AOL, where he was responsible for product strategy, product management, technology development, and client services. Marty spent nearly six years at eBay, most recently as senior vice president of technology, chief technology officer, and member of the executive staff. Prior to his time at eBay, Marty held domestic and international engineering, management, and executive positions at Gateway and Motorola. He has served on the boards of directors of several private and public companies. Marty has a B.S. in computer science from the United States Military Academy, has an M.S. in computer engineering from the University of Florida, is a graduate of the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program, and has a Doctor of Management from Case Western Reserve University.

 

Michael T. Fisher is a founding partner at the growth and scalability advisory firm AKF Partners. Prior to cofounding AKF Partners, Michael was the chief technology officer at Quigo, a startup Internet advertising company that was acquired by AOL in 2007. Before his time at Quigo, Michael served as vice president, engineering and architecture, for PayPal, Inc., an eBay company. Prior to joining PayPal, he spent seven years at General Electric helping to develop the company’s technology strategy and was a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Michael served six years as a Captain and pilot in the U.S. Army. He received a Ph.D. and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management, an M.S. in information systems from Hawaii-Pacific University, and a B.S. in computer science from the United States Military Academy (West Point). Michael is an adjunct professor in the design and innovation department at Case Western Reserve University’s Weatherhead School of Management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0134032802
• ISBN 13: 9780134032801
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 624