Guerrilla Capacity Planning

Download or read book Guerrilla Capacity Planning written by Neil J. Gunther and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-01-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under today’s shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are seen by management as inflating production schedules. In the face of relentless pressure to get things done faster, this book facilitates rapid forecasting of capacity requirements, based on opportunistic use of available performance data and tools so that management insight is expanded but production schedules are not. The book introduces such concepts as an iterative cycle of improvement called "The Wheel of Capacity Planning," and Virtual Load Testing, which provides a highly cost-effective method for assessing application scalability.