September 2008
Intermediate to advanced
152 pages
4h 16m
English
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Preface
SOMEWHERE AROUND 3 A.M. ON JULY 7TH, 2005, MY COWORKER, CAL HENDERSON, AND I WERE FINISHING up some final details before moving all of the traffic for our website, Flickr.com, to its new home: a Yahoo! data center in Texas. The original infrastructure in Vancouver was becoming more and more overloaded, and suffering from serious power and space constraints. Since Yahoo! had just acquired Flickr, it was time to bring new capacity online. It was about an hour after we changed DNS records to point to our shiny new servers that Cal happened to glance at the news. The London subway had just been bombed.
Londoners responded with their camera phones, among other things. Over the next 24 hours, Flickr saw more traffic than ever before, as photos from the disaster were uploaded to the site. News outlets began linking to the photos, and traffic on our new servers went through the roof.
It was not only a great example of citizen journalism, but also an object lesson—sadly, one born of tragedy—in capacity planning. Traffic can be sporadic and unpredictable at times. Had we not moved over to the new data center, Flickr.com wouldn’t have been available that day.
Capacity planning has been around since ancient times, with roots in everything from economics to engineering. In a basic sense, capacity planning is resource management. When resources are finite, and come at a cost, you need to do some capacity planning.
When a civil engineering firm designs a new highway system, it’s planning for ...
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