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
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
