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

by Neil J. Gunther

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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.

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In the face of relentless pressure to do things faster, this book facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements, based on opportunistic use of available performance data and tools so that management insight is expanded but production schedules are not.

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Under today's shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are seen by management as inflating production schedules. In the face of relentless pressure to get things done faster, this book facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements, based on opportunistic use of available performance data and tools so that management insight is expanded but production schedules are not. The book introduces such concepts as an iterative cycle of improvement called "The Wheel of Capacity Planning," and Virtual Load Testing, which provides a highly cost-effective method for assessing application scalability.
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About the Author

Neil J. Gunther, M.Sc., Ph.D., SMIEEE, is an internationally recognized IT researcher and computer performance analyst who founded Performance Dynamics Company (www.perfdynamics.com) in 1994. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, he has resided near Silicon Valley in California since 1980. In that time Dr. Gunther has held teaching positions at California State University-Hayward and San Jose University, as well as research and management positions at Xerox PARC, Pyramid/Siemens Technology, and JPL/NASA where he worked on the Voyager and Galileo missions. His "Guerrilla Capacity Planning" classes have been presented at such organizations as America Online (AOL), Boeing, FedEx, Motorola, Nokia, Stanford University, Sun Microsystems and UCLA. In 1996, Dr. Gunther was awarded Best Technical Paper at the Computer Measurement Group international conference (CMG'96) and at CMG'08 he received the prestigious A.A. Michelson Award---the industry's highest honor for computer performance analysis and capacity planning. Dr. Gunther is also a member of AMS, APS, ACM and SPIE. More details can be found on his Wiki page.
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Table of Contents

1. What is Guerrilla Capacity Planning ?- 2. ITIL for Guerrilas.- 3. Damaging Digits in Capacity Calculations.- 4. Scalability - A Quantitative Approach.- 5. Evaluating Scalability Parameters.- 6. Software Scalability.- 7. Fundamentals of Virtualization.- 8. Website Planning.- 9. Gargantuan Computing - GRIDs and P2P.- 10. Internet Planning - 11. Going Guerrilla - A Case Study.- Appendixes (include The Guerrilla Manual), Bibliography, Index.

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Product Details

ISBN:
9783540261384
Author:
Gunther, Neil J.
Publisher:
Springer
Subject:
Computer Science
Subject:
Networking - General
Subject:
Programming - Systems Analysis & Design
Subject:
Software Development & Engineering - Systems
Subject:
capacity planning
Subject:
Load Testing
Subject:
Performance -- Analysis.
Subject:
Risk management
Subject:
System Scalability
Subject:
Website Planning
Subject:
System Performance and Evaluation
Subject:
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Subject:
Performance and Reliability
Subject:
Software engineering
Subject:
Management of Computing and Information Systems <P>Under today’s shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are seen by management as tending to inflate production schedules. In the fac
Subject:
Software Engineering-Systems Analysis and Design
Subject:
Management of Computing and Information Systems
Edition Description:
Book
Publication Date:
20061231
Binding:
HARDCOVER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
273
Dimensions:
235 x 155 mm 1250 gr
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"Synopsis" by , In the face of relentless pressure to do things faster, this book facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements, based on opportunistic use of available performance data and tools so that management insight is expanded but production schedules are not.
"Synopsis" by , Under today's shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are seen by management as inflating production schedules. In the face of relentless pressure to get things done faster, this book facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements, based on opportunistic use of available performance data and tools so that management insight is expanded but production schedules are not. The book introduces such concepts as an iterative cycle of improvement called "The Wheel of Capacity Planning," and Virtual Load Testing, which provides a highly cost-effective method for assessing application scalability.
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