The art of capacity planning : scaling Web resources in the cloud Goals issues and processes in capacity planning Setting goals for capacity Measurement : units of capacity Predicting trends Deployment Autoscaling In their early days Twitter Flickr Etsy and many other companies experienced sudden spikes in activity that took their web services down in minutes. Today determining how much capacity you need for handling traffic surges is still a common frustration of operations engineers and software developers. This hands on guide provides the knowledge and tools you need to measure deploy and manage your web application infrastructure before you experience explosive growth