Art of Scalability, The

The Comprehensive, Proven Approach to IT ScalabilityUpdated with New Strategies, Technologies, and Case Studies

In The Art of Scalability, Second Edition, leading scalability consultants Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher cover everything you need to know to smoothly scale products and services for any requirement. This extensively revised edition reflects new technologies, strategies, and lessons, as well as new case studies from the authors pioneering consulting practice, AKF Partners.

Writing for technical and nontechnical decision-makers, Abbott and Fisher cover everything that impacts scalability, including architecture, process, people, organization, and technology. Their insights and recommendations reflect more than thirty years of experience at companies ranging from eBay to Visa, and Salesforce.com to Apple.

Youll find updated strategies for structuring organizations to maximize agility and scalability, as well as new insights into the cloud (IaaS/PaaS) transition, NoSQL, DevOps, business metrics, and more. Using this guides tools and advice, you can systematically clear away obstacles to scalabilityand achieve unprecedented IT and business performance.

Coverage includes

Why scalability problems start with organizations and people, not technology, and what to do about it

Actionable lessons from real successes and failures

Staffing, structuring, and leading the agile, scalable organization

Scaling processes for hyper-growth environments

Architecting scalability: proprietary models for clarifying needs and making choicesincluding 15 key success principles

Emerging technologies and challenges: data cost, datacenter planning, cloud evolution, and customer-aligned monitoring

Measuring availability, capacity, load, and performance