A Comprehensive, Proven Approach to IT Scalability from Two Veteran Software, Technology, and Business Executives

InThe Art of Scalability,AKF Partners cofounders Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher cover everything IT and business leaders must know to build technology infrastructures that can scale smoothly to meet any business requirement. Drawing on their unparalleled experience managing some of the world's highest-transaction-volume Web sites, the authors provide detailed models and best-practice approaches available in no other book.

Unlike previous books on scalability,The Art of Scalabilitydoesn't limit its coverage to technology. Writing for both technical and nontechnical decision-makers, this book covers everything that impacts scalability, including architecture, processes, people, and organizations.

Throughout, the authors address a broad spectrum of real-world challenges, from performance testing to IT governance. Using their tools and guidance, organizations can systematically overcome obstacles to scalability and achieve unprecedented levels of technical and business performance.

Coverage includes

Staffing the scalable organization: essential organizational, management, and leadership skills for technical leaders

Building processes for scale: process lessons from hyper-growth companies, from technical issue resolution to crisis management

Making better “build versus buy decisions

Architecting scalable solutions: powerful proprietary models for identifying scalability needs and choosing the best approaches to meet them

Optimizing performance through caching, application and database splitting, and asynchronous design

Scalability techniques for emerging technologies, including clouds and grids

Planning for rapid data growth and new data centers

Evolving monitoring strategies to tightly align with customer requirements

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作者：

馬丁∙阿伯特（Martin L. Abbott） AKF公司的初創閤夥人，曾任Quigo（廣告技術初創公司，後來被AOL收購）的首席運營官，負責領導産品策略、産品管理、技術研發和客戶服務。他在eBay工作瞭6年，先後擔任技術副總裁、首席技術官和公司高管。

邁剋∙費捨爾（Michael T. Fisher ）AKF公司的初創閤夥人，曾任Quigo首席技術官，PayPal負責工程和架構的副總裁。他花瞭7年時間幫助通用電氣公司（GE）形成瞭技術戰略，獲得過6西格瑪黑帶的榮譽，還在美軍擔任過上尉和飛行員。

譯者：

陳斌（Chuck Chen）現任易寶CTO。1989年獲得吉林大學碩士學位，1992年任新加坡航空公司高級係統分析師；1999年投身於矽榖互聯網技術發展浪潮，曾任日立美國係統集成總監，Abacus首席架構師和Nokia美國首席工程師；2008年任eBay資深架構師，負責移動應用的架構設計。豐富的海外經曆，多年的架構經驗，深諳移動互聯網對傳統行業的影響；2014年再次投身易寶，提齣大、平、移、商的戰略方針，全力推動移動互聯網技術，引領行業變革。