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The Comprehensive, Proven Approach to IT Scalability–Updated 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.
You’ll 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 guide’s tools and advice, you can systematically clear away obstacles to scalability–and 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 choices–including 15 key success principles
• Emerging technologies and challenges: data cost, datacenter planning, cloud evolution, and customer-aligned monitoring
• Measuring availability, capacity, load, and performance
Top 10 Architectural, Organizational and Process Related Failures
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Introduction to the Art of Scalability
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Foreword xxiii
Acknowledgments xxvii
About the Authors xxix
Introduction 1
Part I: Staffing a Scalable Organization 7
Chapter 1: The Impact of People and Leadership on Scalability 9
The Case Method 9
Why People? 10
Why Organizations? 11
Why Management and Leadership? 17
Conclusion 19
Chapter 2: Roles for the Scalable Technology Organization 21
The Effects of Failure 21
Defining Roles 23
Executive Responsibilities 25
Individual Contributor Responsibilities 30
A Tool for Defining Responsibilities 35
Conclusion 39
Chapter 3: Designing Organizations 41
Organizational Influences That Affect Scalability 41
Team Size 44
Organizational Structure 51
Conclusion 69
Chapter 4: Leadership 101 71
What Is Leadership? 72
Leadership: A Conceptual Model 74
Taking Stock of Who You Are 76
Leading from the Front 78
Checking Your Ego at the Door 79
Mission First, People Always 80
Making Timely, Sound, and Morally Correct Decisions 81
Empowering Teams and Scalability 82
Alignment with Shareholder Value 83
Transformational Leadership 84
Vision 84
Mission 87
Goals 89
Putting It All Together 90
The Causal Roadmap to Success 94
Conclusion 95
Chapter 5: Management 101 99
What Is Management? 100
Project and Task Management 102
Building Teams: A Sports Analogy 105
Upgrading Teams: A Garden Analogy 107
Measurement, Metrics, and Goal Evaluation 111
The Goal Tree 114
Paving the Path for Success 115
Conclusion 116
Chapter 6: Relationships, Mindset, and the Business Case 119
Understanding the Experiential Chasm 119
Defeating the IT Mindset 122
The Business Case for Scale 124
Conclusion 127
Part II: Building Processes for Scale 129
Chapter 7: Why Processes Are Critical to Scale 131
The Purpose of Process 132
Right Time, Right Process 135
When Good Processes