September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
236 pages
6h 37m
English
Content preview from The Art of Capacity Planning, 2nd Edition
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CHAPTER ONE
Goals, Issues, and Processes in Capacity Planning
This chapter is designed to help you assemble and use the wealth of tools and techniques presented in the following chapters. If you do not grasp the concepts introduced in this chapter, reading the remainder of this book will be like setting out on the open ocean without knowing how to use a compass, sextant, or GPS device—you can go around in circles forever.
Background
The first edition of the book was written at the time when the use of public clouds was about to take off. Today, public clouds such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure are businesses that generate more than $10 billion. In April 2016, IDC forecasted that the spending on IT infrastructure for cloud environments will grow to $57.8 billion in 2020. Further, the landscape of development and operations has undergone a sea change; for example, the transition from monolithic applications to Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs) to containerization (e.g., Docker, CoreOS, Rocket, and Open Container Initiative) of applications. Likewise, another paradigm that is gaining momentum is serverless architectures. As per Martin Fowler:
Serverless architectures refer to applications that significantly depend on third-party services (knows as Backend as a Service or “BaaS”) or on custom code that’s run in ephemeral containers (Function as a Service or “FaaS”), the best-known vendor host of which currently is AWS Lambda. By using these ideas, and by moving ...
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