The Art of Capacity Planning

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AuthorJohn Allspaw
PublisherO'Reilly Media
Published2008
Pages160
LanguageEnglish
FormatPaper book / ebook (PDF)
ISBN-100596518579
ISBN-139780596518578
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Web-based companies live or die by the ability to scale their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand. This book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, and manage web application infrastructure. Written by the manager of data operations for the world-famous photo-sharing site Flickr.com, the author offers advice based on years of valuable experience.


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