Capacity Planning for Internet Services 
by Adrian Cockcroft and Bill Walker
May, 2000
222 pages
Capacity planning is a well-known discipline, particularly for sites that have a mainframe-oriented background. When very high growth rates occur, time constraints prevent normal techniques from being applied. This Sun BluePrints book charts a course through the available techniques and tools; examines time scales and return on investment for different methodologies; provides a framework for decomposing big problems into solvable subproblems; and gives simple, practical examples that provide results in hours thanks to spreadsheet-based techniques. If you wait until you have chosen and purchased an expensive tool, you will then need weeks or months to learn how to use it. These tools are useful and powerful, and their use is also described in detail.
The topics covered in this book can be divided into the following chapters:
- Chapter 1, Introduction
- Chapter 2, Theoretical Principles
- Chapter 3, Suggested Processes
- Chapter 4, Scenario Planning
- Chapter 5, Capacity Estimation
- Chapter 6, Observability
- Chapter 7, Tools Overview and Evaluations
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