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

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 faster, Guerrilla Capacity Planning facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements based on the opportunistic use of whatever performance data and tools are available in such a way that management insight is expanded but their schedules are not.
A key Guerrilla concept is tactical planning whereby short-range planning questions and projects are brought up in team meetings such that management is compelled to know the answer, and therefore buys into capacity planning without recognizing it as such. Once you have your "foot in the door", capacity planning methods can be refined in an iterative cycle of improvement called "The Wheel of Capacity Planning". Another unique Guerrilla tool is Virtual Load Testing, based on Dr. Gunther's "Universal Law of Computational Scaling", which provides a highly cost-effective method for assessing application scalability.

List 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.

Product details

• Authors: Neil J. Gunther
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.02.2010
• EAN: 9783642065576
• ISBN: 978-3-642-06557-6
• No. of pages: 253
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 15 mm x 234 mm
• Weight: 422 g
• Illustrations: XX, 253 p. 108 illus.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; A, Computerhardware, Software Engineering, Wirtschaftsmathematik und -informatik, IT-Management, angewandte informatik, computer science, Information Retrieval, computer hardware, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet), Management of Computing and Information Systems, IT Operations, Application software, Systems analysis & design, Maintenance & repairs, information architecture, Management information systems, Internet searching, Performance and Reliability, Computer software—Reusability, Computer system failures, System Performance and Evaluation