Title: The art of capacity planning
Description: 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.
Subjects: Planning, Computer capacity, Web sites, Management, Design, Web sites, design