1 GOALS,ISSUES,AND PROCESSES IN CAPACITY PLANNING 1
Quick and Dirty Math 3
Predicting When Your Systems Will Fail 3
Make Your System Stats Tell Stories 4
Buying Stuff:Procurement Is a Process 6
Performance and Capacity:Two Different Animals 6
The Effects of Social Websites and Open APIs 8
2 SETTING GOALS FOR CAPACITY 11
Different Kinds of Requirements and Measurements 12
Architecture Decisions 15
3 MEASUREMENT:UNITS OF CAPACITY 23
Aspects of Capacity Tracking Tools 24
Applications of Monitoring 31
API Usage and Its Effect on Capacity 59
Examples and Reality 60
Summary 61
4 PREDICTING TRENDS 63
Riding Your Waves 64
Procurement 80
The Effects of Increasing Capacity 83
Long-Term Trends 84
Iteration and Calibration 88
Summary 90
5 DEPLOYMENT 93
Automated Deployment Philosophies 93
Automated Installation Tools 96
Automated Configuration 98
Summary 103
A VIRTUALIZATION AND CLOUD COMPUTING 105
B DEALING WITH INSTANTANEOUS GROWTH 121
C CAPACITY TOOLS 127
INDEX 131